Twelve-year-old Robby Gale is utterly lost in the throes of adolescence. He finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a vicious bully named Billy Benson, a troubled teen hell-bent on making others pay for his own personal tragedies. In the meantime, Georgia Fisher moves next door to Robby, leaving behind a painful past that has shaped her into a young woman well beyond her sixteen years. During a blistering-hot New Jersey Summer, everything safe in Robby's world comes burning down. With Georgia as a guiding light, it's up to Robby to forge his own path and rise from the ashes, to spread his wings, and fly.