Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother&;s pill-popping boyfriend has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a troubled young soldier, Logan Loy, and inviting him home. When he&;s forced to stay over in a storage space accessible through her closet, and the Army subsequently lists him as AWOL, she realizes that he&;s the one thing in her life that she can control. Meanwhile, her mother&;s boyfriend is on the receiving end of a series of increasingly violent threats, which places Lynn squarely in the cross-hairs.