Summer 1993 — The Bronx, New York Seventeen-year-old Y/N Williams grows up in a close-knit Bronx neighborhood where family, reputation, and racial tensions shape everyday life. When Luca Russo, a seventeen-year-old boy who moved from Sicily with his Italian-American family, enters her world, the two slowly develop a connection neither expected. But their relationship crosses a line that their families and parts of the neighborhood don’t accept. Luca’s traditional family expects him to follow their expectations, while Y/N’s family worries about the Russo family’s reputation and the trouble surrounding them. As rumors spread and tensions rise, Y/N and Luca must navigate prejudice, family pressure, friendship, and the dangerous influences surrounding their neighborhood while trying to decide what their relationship means to them.

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