The story is about two teenagers who have problems with their parents. The girl, Jill, who is 17 years old runs away from home because her relationship to her father becomes worse, since he steals her dancing money. She stays in the Fish House for three days where she meets Chad, a fifteen-year-old boy, whose mother died in a car accident. As they recognize that they have the same problems they fall in love. The book is written from Jill's and Chad's perspective and is divided up in three diary entries.