Camp Alderwood was supposed to be simple: one last summer of bonfires, lake swims, stolen glances across the dining hall, and romances that feel endless under string lights.
A full-residency boarding school for troubled teens (16–19) operates under the promise of rehabilitation, taking in students facing expulsion, juvie, or social failure. Isolated from society but only a 30-minute walk from the city, the school enforces strict control while allowing limited freedom that often leads to rebellion. What sets the school apart is its mandatory partnered dance program, presented as movement-based therapy to build trust and unity. In practice, it forces physical intimacy onto teens with anger, trauma, and control issues. Partners are assigned by staff, styles rotate, and refusal results in punishment or extended stays.
Franceska is a runaway escaping years of abuse. Underweight, impulsive, and haunted by occasional hallucinations, surviving on adrenaline, cigarettes and nothing but her backpack and a pastel pink bow in her hair. Rio ran away for almost the opposite reason—chasing freedom instead of fleeing pain. Easygoing, wild-spirited, and always ready for the next reckless idea.
At the edge of a frozen alpine valley stands Frostline Academy — an elite boarding school where the world’s most promising figure skaters are trained, ranked, and quietly broken.