When Justin learns that his mother has cancer, everything collapses in his life. Anger takes a place that he cannot manage and that he tries to calm by all means. Given his numerous absences from class, the school principal summons him to his office and gives him an ultimatum: either he gets his act together or he risks expulsion. Life? That's out of the question! So here he is forced to meet up with Juliette, the college freak, three times a week, at the school library. She takes it on high and makes him work hard to let him catch up. And yet this girl understands him better than anyone. How is that possible? Between her sick mother,his possessive girlfriend and this bond he develops with Juliette, Justin risks quickly losing his footing...