Lorenzo Cumi is a fourteen-year-old misfit. To quell the anxiety of his
concerned, socially conscious parents, he tells them he's been invited
on an exclusive ski vacation with the popular kids. On the morning of
the trip, Lorenzo demands that his mother drop him off before they
arrive at the train station, insisting that his status will be
compromised if he shows up accompanied by his mother. Reluctantly, she
agrees, and as soon as she is safely out of the vicinity, he turns
around and makes his way back to his neighborhood, to put his real plan
in motion: for one blessed week, Lorenzo will retreat to a forgotten
cellar in his family's apartment building, where he will live in perfect
isolation, keeping the adult world at bay.
But when his estranged half-sister, Olivia, shows up in the cellar
unexpectedly, his idyll is shattered, and the two become locked in a
battle of wills--forced to confront the very demons they are each
struggling to escape.
