- A 15-year-old Nune creates a fantasy world to escape from the pain of social rejection and bullying. But her archenemy's girlfriend-a model cheerleader with a bleeding heart-keeps luring her near.
- Dressed in mismatched hand-me-downs and armed with a glove to mask her scars, Nune (pronounced NOON-NAY) Lusparian is doomed and troubled. Raised on welfare by two lesbian moms who don't believe in her potential and rejected by kids at school, Nune wishes her life was different. Nune escapes to a colorful interstellar world that's free of the pain of rejection. But reality hits hard when her daily passage through school feels like a "walk down death row." She's met by a klatch of privileged wannabe thugs eager to break her. Hunched over and often in tears, Nune drifts through Paradise High School struggling for invisibility. Her dark shadowy figure grabs the attention of a star athlete, Briana Enright, who's the arch-rival's girlfriend. Briana's clique wonders why a girl who has it all, would jeopardize her rank by sympathizing with the high school's ugly duckling. Then start the rumors that Briana might be gay. Pained by an irrevocable yearning, Briana must brave going out on a limb to follow her heart. But will Nune rise up to catch her falling star?—Coleen Rehm
- Dressed in mismatched hand-me-downs and armed with a skeleton long-sleeved glove (to hide her self-inflicted scars on her right hand), Nune (pronounced NOON-NAY) Lusparian is a poor and troubled 15-year-old living a meaningless existence. Raised by a lesbian couple (who are never named or seen on camera) living on welfare who don't believe in her future and rejected by kids at school, Nune wishes her life was different. To cope, she escapes to a perfect world created inside her head that's free of the pain of rejection.
At Paradise High School, Nune dodges a klatch of wannabe gangsters who ridicule her. Nune struggles to be invisible but her shadowy figure grabs the attention of Briana Enright, a smart star athlete and cheerleader who happens to be the girlfriend of Nune's arch rival Christian Vaunt. When the two girls cross paths on campus, they wonder if their worlds are miles apart.
Briana sympathizes with the high school's ugly duckling, though her clique, led by her best friend, Kimberly, doesn't get why an American beauty, who has it all, is wasting her time on a "loser" without a cause. Then start the rumors that Briana might be gay.
Like Nune, Briana also dreams of living in a perfect world. Determined to brighten Nune up, Briana braves going out on a limb to follow her heart. But will Nune rise up against her oppressors to catch her falling star?
One day, when Nune is sent to the school nurse's office and Briana happens to be there as well to try to gain more ibuprofen pills that she takes on a regular basis, Nune steals a small bottle out of another girl's purse and the two of them sneak out of the office and school.
Briana takes Nune to a coffee shop where she tries to get Nune to talk to her about what is bothering her. Nune tells Briana that she does not see herself anywhere in ten years from now, but dead and tells her about unhappy home life. When Nune questions why Briana pops so many pills, Briana tells them they are painkillers to help her deal with her own emotional pain, but refuses to talk about any details. Nune tells Briana that nothing makes her happy and that she hates happy people. Briana tells Nune that she has happiness but she is only "a gift that no one has opened yet." Briana then writes down her phone number on a tennis ball and gives it to Nune to call her anytime she feels lonely.
Nune soon begins having fantasies about kissing Briana, but does not tell anyone out of fear and further rejection. Meanwhile, Briana begins having problems with Vaunt who wants to take their relationship to the next level, but Briana refuses to have sex with him. Kimberly also begins to question Briana's behavior towards Vaunt. When Vaunt begins flirting with Kimberly in front of Briana, she finds herself hardly reacting at all.
When Vaunt confronts and physically threatens Nune to stay away fro Briana and even spits in her face and calls her a "dyke", Nune is so shaken that she begins to avoid Briana and doesn't show up at the coffee shop where they met. Nune is seen wondering aimlessly and narrates that she feels dead inside, but that Briana may be her light to happiness. While riding on a public train, she removes her long-sleeved glove and discards it.
Finally taking a chance, Nune calls Briana who invites Nune over to her house. Alone with Briana, Nune notices bruises on Briana's left arm and she tells Nune that she and Vaunt broke up for he left her to go out with Kimberly. Briana and Nune talk about pain both physically and emotional and how they deal, with Briana telling Nune the differences between them and clearly flirts with Nune by offering her to kiss her to get rid of the pain. Nune sits on the couch next to Briana and finally makes her moves and kisses her. For a full minute, Nune and Briana passionately make out with each other and when they are finished, both of them claim to have had an epiphany... a sexual awaking realizing their attraction to each other and of their sexual orientation. For the first time, Nune smiles and is happy. The film ends with Nune and Briana holding each other on the couch, having finally found each other as Nune closes with a final voice over that when she kissed Briana (for real and not fantasy) she saw stars and that they were real and they did not go away from sight.
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