Hollywood star and icon Cole Carpenter is returning to Newbury, the home of his youth, to be , honored. Among those awaiting his arrival is Bob, his best friend and biggest fan, who always saw the star Cole would become. Along with Laurie, the girl up the street, they forged a bond of friendship that lasted summer after summer. But it's been fifteen summers since Laurie disappeared, the very day Cole left Newbury, and Bob is determined to confront him with the horrible secret he's been carrying since that time; concerning something he wasn't meant to see, and how it holds the key to her disappearance so long ago.