After a big fight with his best bud, Daniel is facing a lonely eighth grade. Crying at the drop of the hat hasn’t exactly made him a friend-magnet. He also can’t get over his recent dog’s passing. Or his parents' impending divorce. Everyone says he’s overly sensitive—and he'd be the first to agree. It’s not like he wants to be this way. He just is. Ash, who is new in town, is struggling to find a place to fit as well. Ash cycles between genders—sometimes Ash is undoubtedly Ashley, but other times, Ash feels 100% guy Asher. An act as simple as walking into a bathroom, in full view of classmates, can feel like committing to one gender for life…and Ash isn’t there yet. Might never be. Right as Daniel and Ash are about to resign themselves to a year of social pariahdom, their lives intersect, and they form a friendship—one that deepens when Daniel confesses to Ash that he smuggled an elderly Pomeranian out of the vet clinic where he volunteers, saving it from being euthanized, but now has to keep it a secret until he figures out what to do. Ash agrees to help, but things go from cute to complicated after a totally-not-friends kiss leads Ash to some Big Feelings for Daniel. But Daniel thinks Ash is all girl—and he's falling for this new friend, who doesn’t flinch at his regular tears, or judge him for being exactly who he is. But what will happen when Ashley cycles to Asher? With so much on the line—truth, identity, acceptance, and the life of an adorable pup named Chewbarka—will Ash and Daniel forever feel at war with themselves because they don’t fit into the world’s binaries? Or will their friendship help them embrace the beauty in the crossfade?