When Charlie Parker dies, it affects everyone who knew him. Everyone, that is, except for seventeen-year-old Hamish Day, the boy who lives on a cabbage farm and only has one friend.<br/>But Hamish soon finds himself pulled into the complicated lives of the people left behind. Among them is Annie Bower, the prettiest girl in school.<br/>As he uncovers startling truths about his peers, his perspectives on friendship, love, grief and the tragic power of silence are forever alterered.