McKenna Washington doesn't believe in much. Feeling unwanted by her guardians and bullied by the kids at school, McKenna finds haven in the neighbor's woods where she spends the majority of her time. But when a runaway stumbles into Mckenna's hideaway in the woods everything she was used to threatens to fall apart. She keeps his secret and lets him stay at her hut in the woods. But when things get a bit more complicated and McKenna does her best to resist any feelings toward the boy she wonders if there's more to life than what she thought.