two families four teensa summer full of secretsevery summer hidden away in a lakeside community in upstate new york four teens leave behind their old identitiesand escape from their everyday livesyet back in philadelphia during the school year alex cannot suppress his anger at his father who killed himself his mother whom he blames for it and the girls who give it up too easily his younger brother kyle is angry tooat his abusive brother and at their mother who doesnt seem to care meanwhile in suburban new jersey katie plays the role of miss perfect while trying to forget the nightmare that changed her life but julie her younger sister sees katie only as everything shes not and their mother will never let julie forget itup at the lake they can be anything anyone free but then katies secret gets out forcing each of them to face realitybefore it tears them to pieces