When eight year-old Leo Jansen watches Meg Kenton move in across the street, he has no idea the bossy girl will become his best friend. She is pink and sunshine and boldness, and while Leo's family falls apart, her world is his sanctuary. Then she leaves for two years that becomes four, and Leo's life goes to pieces. After Meg returns, lonely and doubting her worth, she looks for the boy who used to be her friend. She finds a young man she doesn't recognize, a mean, rough troublemaker who can't stand her. Yet she's drawn to him, and she asks God to help her reach the old Leo she used to know....