خلاصه داستان : پس از یک ضربه روحی در تابستان، "ملیندا" به دبیرستان جدیدی می رود. او ارتباطش با دوستان و پدر و مادرش را قطع می کند و به گوشه گیری روی می آورد. او داستان تجربه تلخش و دلیل انتخابش برای سکوت را بازگو می کند...

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.