Kathleen Michaels is your typical high school senior trying to maintain her facade just to get though a typical day. Only Kathleen's life isn't so typical. After her estranged father left, Kathleen is left to care for her two younger siblings and emotional wreck of a mother, she hardly hears from her father, and she just can't keep above the waves. Can she escape her predicament, graduate and leave this town and its memories behind?