Aleksey exists the same way air does; silently. To many people, she is many things. To her brother, Peter, she is a poser; to her best friend (if one could call her that), Marina, she is an enigma; and to Mark Irving, a boy in her year, she's someone he must untangle. When Mark finally breaks through the barriers Aleksey has put up, he unwittingly opens the Pandora's box of things that threaten to destroy him and everyone who gets past her exterior.