Chase has wanted a tree house since he was small. He now realizes it must come down to him and three friends, one a sickly Hispanic boy named Angel. The boys discover a dead body in the basement and about judging others. It's also about Chase's sister, Anne, who finds out being popular isn't everything.

If you graduated from high school from 1970 to 1980, you can relate to this fictional account of several people coming to terms with aging, a life that didn't turn out as planned and reinvention.