학교에서 주목받지 못하고 소심한 성격인 10대 소녀가 라디오 DJ를 하면서 적극적인 성격으로 변해간다는 내용
순진하고 착한 알렉사와 그녀의 베스트 프렌드이자 게이인 벤, 겉은 나쁜 남자이나 치명적인 매력남 조니. 그들의 엉뚱하고 기묘한 삼각관계와, 십대들의 혹독한 성장이야기이다.
High school senior Ben secretly lusts after bad boy classmate Johnny. After Ben gives Johnny a ride home one night, the boys end up in Johnny's swimming pool and have an encounter that breaks the rules and blows Ben's mind.
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.
17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a timid mother, a younger sister and an older brother who has left home complete the picture: a silent time bomb.