Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. "Voy en busca d un Gran quizá," Miles se siente fascinado por esta ultimas palabras del escritor Francois Rabelais. Aburrido de su mono̓tona existencia, inicia su propia búsquéda y se muda a Alabama par terminar la preparatoria en el internado...