When his dad and best friend, Billy, each die within the space of a month, 14-year old Eddie Proffit elects to go mute to manage his pain. Soon, he begins seeing Billy everywhere - in dreams, while he's running - a fact that magnifies his grief and leads him to question his sanity. But, with Billy's help, Eddie emerges from the dark room of his grief to confront powerful town censors who would ban a book from his high school English class in the...