Feisty New Yorker, Max, falls for her mysterious coworker, Tommy, who is fourteen years her senior. Wanting to please him and meet his beauty standards she conflictingly conceals her natural hair from him and avoids tanning so her skin doesn't get too dark. Max tightly holds onto their forbidden romance while trying to figure out who she is and her place in a world she doesn't always fit in. Too caught up with her feelings she becomes oblivious to the consequences of her actions.
As tragedy strikes Max has to face her own worst enemy, herself.