Bad influence, rebellious, of bad behavior. Those are the adjectives people would use to describe 17-year-old Shane Mitchell. What people wouldn't describe him as is: misunderstood, lonely, broken. Could anyone see him for who he was and not the façade he made up to cover his wounds? With an abusive father, a mother diagnosed with clinical depression and an autistic brother, bad-boy Shane doesn't see how life can be any good and uses smoking, girls and adrenaline as an escape valve for his chaotic world. When he meets self-proclaimed crazy girl Claire, things start to change. Or at least that's what Shane sees.