Blake is unlike any boy Samantha has ever known.

In a small Tennessee town in 1999, high school senior Blake McNamara is the son of a moonshiner and cares nothing for football or politics. He's Captain of the Jr ROTC, has his sights set on West Point, and dreams of retiring one day as a military officer.

Samantha Yale is the daughter of a United States Senator. She obeys the rules, dresses in a conservative 1950s style, wears thick eyeglasses, and has never been asked out on a date. But she doesn't mind. She wants nothing more than to live life expressing her love of art through her paintings.

The two never speak to each other and couldn't be more different among their classmates. But when Blake and Samantha are teamed up for a school art project, they'll soon learn that the people and experiences we first encounter are rarely what they seem...

And that's exactly where their adventure begins.