17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
After waking up from a lucid dream to a power outage, sixteen-year old Indy experiences an emotional reckoning on a freewheeling and foreboding summer day journey
In the course of one day, Mickey meets a troupe of teachers aids and their fearless leader: Mrs. Hudson, an experienced elementary school teacher, witnessing a team of women not only keeping a classroom together, but themselves as well.