Setting: Gyre, Massachusetts. Present-day. Valjean: Panara Bread stocks worker; foster father to Cosette; caring, smart Javert: police sergeant who sometimes teaches health at Gyre High School; always had suspected Valjean for 'stealing' Cosette, stubborn and powerful Fantine: substitute teacher; secret mother to Cosette; clumsy, tries to do her job right but somehow fails Mr. Thénardier: Panara Bread office manager and conman, boss to Valjean; husband to Mrs. Thénardier, father to Éponine, Azelma, and Gavroche; sneaky, charming, beats children Cosette Valjean: student, sophomore, new girl, moved from Los Angeles; foster daughter to Valjean; sweet, smart Éponine Thénardier: student, junior; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thénardier, sibling to Azelma and Gavroche; threatened which causes her to be 'mean', caring to siblings and rebellious to parents Marius Pontmercy: student, junior; grandson to Mr. Gillenormand; oblivious to most people, especially Éponine, lover-boy Alexander Enjolras: student, senior; has younger brother, Nathan; draconian, stubborn, rebellious (especially to parents, sometimes lives with Courfeyrac's family) Max Courfeyrac: student, senior; has illegitimate child, Hallie with lex-girlfriend, Kerrie Sanders; man-whore, can be nice and mature but most of the time immature
Aloe had no one in her life until a kind man appears and takes her away to Paris with her friend Cosette. They became a family as they hid away in a convent but Aloe quickly realized that it wasn't the life for her. When she leaves her new family behind she quickly finds herself being beaten down by the streets of Paris until one night when her friend Ephonie takes her to a meeting in the local café. Aloe finds herself thinking things that she'd never thought before as she butts heads with the cold leader, joking with the group's drunk, and falling for the well known flirt. When the barricades arise Aloe finds herself trying to protect those closest to her but what will happen when her walls come down?