After the sudden demise of her father, sixteen-year-old Joey Javitts is distributed to stick with her grandparents whereas her writer mom promotes her newest novel. Joey promptly falls for the beguiling goth boy subsequent door, Victor, and is reworked by him and his merry band of misfits in black. A coming-of-age story in regards to the generally painful—and sometimes entertaining—seek for identification and love in adolescence.