Mel, living in Florida with her activist mother, feels like she finally has found someone who understands her when she meets Jeremy, but Jeremy has secrets that torment him, and Mel isn't sure she can save him.
After her father suffers a stroke, fifteen-year-old Lou must relocate from Alberta to Victoria to live with her mother Zoe, a successful novelist who abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until she was twelve.
Jayden agrees to accompany his eccentric uncle Mel on a research trip into the Australian outback, where Jayden gets lost with a biology student and the pair must fight for their survival.
Seven-year-old Ben, having been left by his friend Jessy because she was tired of playing his robot game, decides to make a real robot, but finds things not working out the way he wanted them to.
