The story of a young woman named Lena Demuir, who wakes one day to tragedy and finds herself alone and feeling unloved. She has no friends. Lena tells everyone she is fine, and herself that she prefers to be alone and without friends. But Lexi, a long-term acquaintance as Lena calls her, and a strange mad woman they encounter who predicts Lena's future, see things differently for Lena. Faced with the beating drum of her destiny, Lena tries to avoid the path before her, but life won't let her. Mostly, Lena tries to avoid friends, to avoid friendship. In the end, she comes to see people differently; her understanding of friendship evolves from her experiences.