1968: Civil Rights riots, assassinations, a war in Vietnam. And yet, in Middletown, Minnesota, life flows smoothly on, sheltered from the storms that rage across the nation. Wendy Wade loves her idyllic life, and when Kevin O'Keefe, an Irish exchange student she'd met the year before, returns, her life is complete. But darkness creeps in even to good places. When Wendy befriends a new student with a troubled past, he decides she's the only person who understands him and he'll do anything to make her his own. Anything.