Axel has grown up in the system, abandoned by his drug addict mother whom he remains bitter towards. And after twenty years, by happenstance he meets her again, both living very different lives surrounded by very different people. Among them, a boy named Roxas, whom Axel can't help but to both love and hate. How much love does a person need before they feel whole again?

Roxas's life has been reduced to nothing but working for minimum wage at an ice cream parlor and sleeping with his dead brother's boyfriend. Not a day goes by where he doesn't want the world to end. Then he meets Axel, a guy dying of cancer who teaches him how to live again.