One girl lives walking through life learning lessons along the way but they don't come easy, her name is Ella and she is 17. Her mother and her butt heads very often and dreams of moving away to live with her father to escape her mother abusive ways. She learns what true love is and what life will be like once she graduates from highschool and starts her adult life. Her life takes place in Georgia in a medium sized town named Orik. Not far from the Gulf of Mexico. From the time she was one, she moved around from town to town first landing in a small and redneck town until she was seven then moving again to a rural town that was for caring for its townspeople then finally landing Orik where she was raised then on from the age of eleven. This girl learns from her past and tries to make the people around proud but what she doesn't that the person in life who matters is Lucus, a man who she has crossed paths with before but really doesn't truly actually know him until just last year.