Ivy Atwell preffered National georaphics magazines over barbie, documentaries over disney, and the memory of tribes over friends. Now at seventeen, no one seems to understand her strange antics and awkward ways, and she decides to go to Mexico where her dreams of researching historical tribes lay. In hopes to save up money for her expidition, Ivy pushes past her fear of people and gets a job as a blind womans assistant, where she meets Aiden, the one person who seems capable of pulling from her world of sheltered knowledge and branching out to the unknown. Forced to go through his life with nothing but stares of pity and disgust, Aiden hides behind the idea that humanity is doomed. After his accident, nothing had ever been the same, especially his face but when Ivy comes into his life like an unsure whirlind, he cant help but wonder if she too can look past what the fire had turned him into. Together they struggle past their lonely worlds and discover a facinating bond, secrets best left hidden, insicurities made to brake, and what to say to a cukoo bird at midnight.