Ashton Smith is 17 and he has been in what he thinks is an insane asylum for 342 days. He has done everything he can to keep from going insane but things are no longer working, the government throws a girl named Elaina Lockwood in with him in hopes that she can keep him sane. Instead, the two embark on a journey to save a broken and disturbed country from a corrupted government, in doing so Ashton has to learn what trust is and how to love someone so fragile, and maybe just maybe he might get back his sanity.