“It’s because I have a penis, isn’t it?” Try as she might, she couldn’t tell if he was serious or trying to get a rise out of her. “Do you really think I’m going to do something when you’re hyperventilating and covered in pus?”;
High school girl Farrah O’Brien develops lumps on her back that turn out to be wings. While searching for answers she meets Neal Sumalt, who has the same problem. A romance develops between them as they try to figure out why their wings exist.
Not only that, but her sudden disinterest in her typically active social life is creating tension between her and friends Michael and Ruby. To top it off there is a man and a woman harassing her with cryptic remarks about oddities and diseases at her after school workplace. Can’t a girl just catch a break?