Thirteen-year-old Carrie is totally absorbed with and concerned about her nineteen-year-old half brother, Ben. She can't understand his change from the loving, funny brother she's always known to the sullen, shut-off young man he's become. When he asks her to come with him to Boston to meet his real dad, she's hopeful -- maybe the old Ben isn't gone after all.

But the truth Carrie uncovers in Boston isn't quite so simple. The old Ben is gone. And somehow, she's going to have to learn to accept the way things are now.