Seventeen year old Serenity Riley witnessed her mother's death when she was six years old on September 18th, 2001. Since then, her father had always kept secrets to each other to keep them bonded, including the secret that her mother was murdered, by him. After she meets Carter, a film 'geek' and head president for the school's Film Club, she feels like she's in love, until she realizes, he's not the one she's caught feelings for.