Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorn College, Lainey, Ji Sun, Alice and Margaret quickly become inseparable. The leafy green campus they move through together, the idyllic window seat they share in their suite, and the passion and ferocity that school and independence awakens in them ignite an all-encompassing love with one another. But they soon find that their bonds --- forged in joy and fused by fear --- must weather threats that originate from beyond the dark forests of their childhoods, and come at them from institutions, from one another and, ultimately, from within themselves.