In 2016, Jesse's home life is difficult due to her father's anger and grief over the loss of Jesse's older brother, Travis, who died in the Twin Towers on 9/11. Jesse falls in with the wrong crowd and is caught spray-painting terrorists go home on the Islam Peace Center. Back in 2001, Alia Susanto is proud to be a Muslim, but finds being a teenager hard. She meets Travis while going to Manhattan to see her father in his Twin Towers office, and the two teens become trapped together as the planes hit. Fifteen years later, Jesse must come to terms with her own feelings by unraveling the past and finding out how her brother truly died all those years ago.