Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, She and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south to Florida where she is determined to start a new life with the mom she has never known.