Meet Elliot, a fifteen year old girl who has old-fashioned parents and a sister she can't seem to understand... or so she thinks. Elliot seems to have a good life, other than the fact that she has to wake up every morning at four a.m to go to school in Obion County every other year, but other than that, she hasn't even heard of a McDonalds. Elliot doesn't have much planned for her dim future as a housewife who has no opinion and kisses the ground her husband walks, but she does have one dream: To go to the library. In Alpine, Tennessee, there isn't much except for a few generic 7-11's, and her parents won't drive her to Obion County for a library book, with over-protective parents and not much to do, what will happen?