Julian is ugly. He knows it. Everyone knows it. He is also a boy with secrets. He€s gay, his family owns the local funeral home, and he€s not certain which secret he more desperately desires to keep. Julian is a wallflower, but tries out for the soccer team to please his father. Beyond all hope he makes the team and there he meets boys who change his life forever and a coach he suspects is trying to kill him. Julian€s greatest love is music. He slips off at lunch and after school to play the grand piano in the music room. His music attracts the attention of a secret admirer and for the first time ever someone sees beauty in Julian€"his music. The tragic death of teammates forces Julian to realize that he might not have as much time as he believed and leads him to take a desperate chance. Julian is determined to stop sitting on the sidelines of life. Friendship and love is worth any risk.