When Dewey Kerrigan moves to a new home near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family, she shares secrets with her "sister" Suze, adjusts to high school, and faces her long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci.
In 1946, high schooler Dewey Kerrigan is beginning to adjust to living with the Gordon family near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, but the arrival of her mother, who wants to take her back, changes everything.