After struggling with depression during her senior year of high school, Ocean moves to New York City, where she has been accepted at a prestigious university. But Ocean feels so emotionally raw and unmoored that she decides to defer and live off her savings until she can get herself together. She also decides not to tell her mother that she is deferring...at least until she absolutely must. She moves into an apartment with Georgie and Tashya and gets a job tutoring. She also meets a boy-Constantine Brave-late one night on the subway. Constant is a fellow student and a graffiti artist, and Constant and Ocean soon start corresponding via Google Docs-they discuss physics, philosophy, art, literature, and love. But everything falls apart when Ocean goes home for Thanksgiving, Constant reveals his true character, Georgie and Tashya break up, and the police get involved...