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

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.

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.