Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.
Keywords: absurd , admiring , adoring , affectation , aggressive , ambiguous , ambivalent , amused , angry , candid , college , exuberant , high-school , melancholy , melodramatic , mental-illness , mental-institution , paranoid , philosophical , road-trip , suicide-attempt , teen-angst , teenage-love , teenage-romance , troubled-teen , woman-director