Twelve-year-old Alice suffers from albinism and the near-blindness that goes with it. However, she had never felt disabled until she and her family moved to Sinkville, South Carolina. People seem only able to see her cane and the giant magnifying glass she uses to read. When her parents start talking about sending her to a school for the blind, Alice rebels and vows to show people that her blindness is not all she is.