A family of five relocates from Manhattan N.Y. to a small town in another state. The youngest, nine year old Elizabeth Farley is angry and distraught, being forced to leave her beloved grandmother, teachers and crowd of friends. Now she hates everyone, including her two older brothers, and parents. To top that off, her first encounter in her new neighborhood is with a cantankerous "nobody" of an old man. Then after meeting a neighbor boy, Lizzy begins to experience a strange supernatural phenomenon that causes her to question her sanity.
Could this boy be the cause? With heartbreak, humor, tears and joy, this very typical American family, by embracing Lizzy's new reality, inexplicably change themselves, and the townspeople lives they touch.