Avril has to deal with a lot. To start with, her hard-a father is the governor, her mother is on twenty different medications, and her only sibling is a pothead. Then she meets Xander, an orphaned boy whose past still lingers in his eyes. He's a street fighter with nowhere to live so Avril invites him to stay with her -without telling her parents. Drama ensues as she befriends him and they navigate their own hectic lives together.