A caterpillar is destined to turn into a butterfly. Janell is a lackluster girl who is struggling in an abusive home. Circumstances lead her to the home of an apathetic know-it-all and his bad-boy best friend. Together, they begin to blossom under the vines of their own traumas and learn what love is. But not all things can come to the light. Murders begin to trickle in one by one and it becomes a race against time to stop a serial killer with a strange obession.