Dean Nygard is that blond, athletic California teenager that seems to have everything going on in life. Everything, that is, until at age 15 he watches his mother die of breast cancer. Three years later when it seems life is back on track, a second tragedy, this one of his own doing, devastates his life again. Follow along as Deans life goes wildly off the rails and we are left to wonder how we would ever survive what Dean is facing . . .