Will Peaceman, a seventeen teenager who has got enrolled in a social movement against police violence and corruption with his girlfriend, Claire Everine after the revelation of a journalist's death, attempts to reach Claire who has gone missing, while recalling his past and how the social movement first began. Throughout the story, various social problems are pointed out, such as the reluctancy of adults to have their children join political events, censorship, police violence, et cetera. It is a search for freedom - both Will's in his personal life as he tries to escape from his dad's expectation to study films with Claire in college and the city's as Will and other citizens have to make immense sacrifices so as to claim their birthright, the freedom that they deserve.
Kat was three years old when the fighting broke out between her parents and two years later they finally divorced. Ever since then she has lived with her father, but not by choice. Her father had changed when her mother left, his brain became constantly disoriented by alcohol and every weekend, there seemed to be a new girlfriend except when there wasn't then he'd take advantage of Kat. Trapped and internally screaming for help, she began to feel hopeless until she met a kind stranger who would unexpectedly change her life. His name was Jake Revelle and he seemed to have heard her silent screams. As their friendship blossoms and then becomes something more, they are forced to face problems Kat's father causes and her past which keeps coming back to haunt her. Their love seems impossible, but can they make it work? Can they escape Kat's past to make a new future together? Kat hopes they can...All she wants is for someone to take her away.