❝Your ignorance is like the stench of rotting flesh, its overwhelming.❞ ____ You know that Cliché story where a girl and a guy stumble into each other and fall in love? Phoenix Chapman is a young African American teenager who can be incredibly impatient and impolite. Her brother being jailed is the major thing that hits home, besides her mother struggling after her father's death and it seems like everything is going downhill. Jessye Reese is a christian, deaf, teenager who deals with daily troubles of having a 'disability'. His parents decide that change is good and switches him to his brother's hearing school where understanding hearing people is even harder than it usually is. The two cross paths one day and Phoenix is opened up to a different world. And Jessye develops different feelings towards hearing people. Both realize how ignorant they really are, to the society they live in. A deaf boy and hearing girl what could go wrong? Everything.