An unhappy and overweight adolescent, April Taylor struggles to cope with the desertion and death of her father, the suicide of her mother, her new life with her lesbian sister, and her doubts about her own sexual orientation.
Jordan March struggles to follow her grandmother's strict rules, but when her blossoming sexuality causes a stir, dark family secrets are revealed and Jordon is sent to a lakeside hideaway where she befriends a girl with her own shocking secret.