April, an eighteen-year-old willing for a change in her current life, transfers to a new school, experiencing an emotional rollercoaster pre and post her leg injury. Forcing her in her beliefs and willing for the perfect but soon realizes that perfect in itself is an infinite, neverending margin for improvement, running on train tracks. You can see them joining. It's not false, but they never actually do join.
Claire, her mom, had similar and contradicting experiences in her childhood and her motherhood. They together get to face the ugly and beauty in themselves and each other.
April's people- her dad and her mom, Jace, Chloe, Jema, and Aiden side her with their causes. Later in the chapters, April chooses to save her unexplored-romantic feelings for the future and rather encounters her cause for her existence.