It's difficult to hold on to life when the things you love are slowly slipping away and plummeting into the depths of regret. Everything falls apart, and that's a part of growing up. Julien Somers has grown to realize this in his seventeen years of living and has come to terms with the cruel reality he has been faced with. But through the beautiful eyes of someone else, he can see the aspects of life worth fighting for. Ocala Baresk, the anonymous train rail poet, reveals the common struggles between the two abandoned teens. It is through their relationship that we discover the bliss amongst the wreckage.