Matt Crowley does not speak. Beaten into silence by his abusive father, he goes through the motions of living with no hope for the future. He dreams of only one thing: Stars. As his father's rage worsens, the beatings more frequent, the damage harder to hide, a girl stumbles into Matt's life. Her name? Aroura. And, for the first time in his life, Matt reaches out for help, for saftey, for the love he was never shown.