For nineteen years, Kira Evans put her family above her own interests. No friends, no boyfriends, no going out, no teenage experiences. Now she's in England, away from all the reasons that made her sacrifice herself for her mother and siblings. Finishing high school in a sixth form college, she doesn't know how to make friends, relate to others, or even understand them after the horrors she's been through.

Reizu Atkinson is not your average run-of-the-mill teacher. Half Japanese, half English, he knows from experience what it's like to feel alienated in a new place, unable to trust or understand others. The pair is brought together by their similarities, and Reizu becomes the only one Kira can trust when life throws her curveball after curveball.

When push comes to shove, are rules meant to be broken, or is this another sacrifice that Kira will have to make?