Franny Callaghan is the awkward middle child in a family with a mother who has locked herself away in her room, and a father and younger sister who travel most of the time, training her sister to be an Olympic speed skater. Franny's brother died a few years before and is only seen in the photos on the wall. Her family hasn't spoken of him since the day of his big funeral and the subsequent news coverage of the tragic accident that killed eight members of the Ridgewood High School Orchestra and one teacher. To shake up her family, Franny decides to go see her brother's favorite band on the one year anniversary of his death.