This book shares an emotional and warm story about a boy whose home life and emotional stability is tedious to say the least. With encouragement from strategic family members and friends, he shares his feelings and experiences as he grows through his hardships. When he summons the courage to ask a girl to spend time with him, they both discover the meaning of love and the heartache of death. This relationship begins to open his cocoon to a brighter life if things can just fall into place.