A tomboyish, 16 year old girl, Zack Holiday, is shunned by her friend, Cadena Winston, and then accidently kills her. After the inccident, she is headed to jail. Going to Assion, (A-ZHI-on)a school/camp that's dedicated to suffering preteens and teenagers who've been homicidal, has suicidal thoughts or actions, or have experienced loss with something or someone important, and still inherits normal school traits, and Cadena became resurrected. Now, Zack must protect Cadena from being exposed to anymore harm.
Zack and Rachel start an awkward life together after he "rescues" her from the hospital. Zack just wants to take care of her and make her smile. Rachel just won't make life easy for him though. After all, she's determined to make him see her as more than a creepy little girl, by any means necessary. Life is about to take an interesting turn for the two of them as they struggle to understand the differences between ownership, love, lust, sex and simple comfort.