Christopher Massey

In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Zoey Brooks and her brother Dustin attend their first day at Pacific Coast Academy, a private boarding school that is enrolling girls for the first time in its history.

Follows Zoey Brooks and the Pacific Coast Academy alumni as they catch up for a wedding in the present day.