Jeff expected to have a certain sort of senior year. Football practice. Basketball games. Dates with Kate. One last crisp fall, one more snowy winter, and a final windy spring on Long Island before leaving for college. But when Jeff's father announces a job transfer to Hong Kong, Jeff dins himself on a plane bound for Hall School, a boarding school in California. Suddenly, Jeff needs to learn a whole new landscape. And now in the midst of boarding school rituals, roommate tensions and deepening friendships, he must forge a new path to growing up.