Althea lost her father the day she lost her mother. He drowned himself at work that he forgot someone was about to give up waiting on him. And so Althea was left alone to take care of her younger brother who seemed more affected by their father's missing presence than her. When she enrolled in a famous, private school, and transferred to an apartment, she met this cool guy with black eyes who seemed to read her deepest buried secret. Nagtataka man kung bakit palagi itong lumalapit sa kanya ay hinahayaan nalang niya. She let her heart opened for this guy. But this guy seemed to be in love with another girl. Broken-hearted, she went back home with a tears in her eyes. But what she doesn't know was that a more mournful whisper of truths awaits her. "And when I thought I could escape the cruelty of life, it just keeps on haunting me alive."