When Celeste Steel learns of a secret her mom has kept from her, she can't understand or accept it. She feels the need to get out, to leave the town she grew up in and walk away from her current life. She musters up all the courage she can and decides to leave. With her 18th birthday soon approaching, having her own money saved up, and having graduated high school, she knows that nothing can get in her way. She may have to leave her mother, boyfriend, and friends but she is set on leaving her past and starting anew.