When teen musician Rainey Cobb gets noticed by a major record label, she's caught between her rock & roll dreams and her sick father's hope that she goes to college.

She finds a romantic diversion in Mia, a music-obsessed college dropout who makes the best mix tapes ever. But it's hard for Rainey to fully open her heart when she's not quite ready to show the rest of the world she's gay.

Signing a contract with the label should be a no-brainer. But they're also demanding that Rainey swap her Grunge-curious look for Gap-catalog styles and her edgy original songs for a more radio-friendly sound. They even offer to pay her dad's expensive cancer bills if she'll commit to their vision-but how much should a dream really cost?