Allie Stewart never liked change. She actually hates it. Change means days are coming and going, the leaves falling and growing, time flying and moving.
It's just that she hasn't seen her mother in eight years, and she hasn't shown up ever since. She remembers her, but it seemed like it was all just a dream...Now, her dad announces they're going to be staying in her late grandmother's house, in an old town beside an ocean, and they might stay there indefinitely.
For her dad, everything's still the same: the house, the square, the beach, the people, his childhood friend across the house. He's trying to forget all his regrets, all his sadness. And now, he's trying to do the same for Allie, by trying to make her friends with his childhood friend's son, Matt.
Matt understands Allie's situation, and tries to help her take it all out. But it isn't easy, because she keeps it all, stored tightly and precisely, in small rectangles, captured and taken, unique and effortless in pictures. How can Matt tell her that moments just can't be taken and seen inside those four walls of a picture?
"I just wanted a new start. The feeling of being alone was not a good feeling. It just made you want more and more. I sniffed and splashed some water on my face. You're losing it Amber, you're officially losing it..."
After finally adjusting to the Oregon Coast, Amber Ashturn's life gets altered once again by her parents getting back together. Amber and her mom must move back to the Bahamas immediately; leaving Amber's new boyfriend, AJ, behind. Deciding it's best to break things off, Amber moves back to the Bahamas broken hearted. After a year of depression, Amber and her best friend/ex-boyfriend Brady get accepted into Oregon State University and she is elated. She will finally be able to get back together with AJ. Or...will she? Things don't go as Amber has planned; AJ's very different now and Amber doesn't know what she's feeling anymore or for who, on that matter. Will Amber get her "happily ever after"? Or will her fairy tale change to something no one could have seen coming?