Death is optional: you can choose it, but others do not have a choice. Fifteen year old Vera Davis's cancer is back. It is terminal, and she is going to die. It is unsure when, but death is inevitable. How can she possibly spend her last moments being happy and having fun when all she can think about is leaving this Earth forever? And leaving behind the boy she loves more than everything? Death can come when you least expect it. Live life.