At school she is an outcast since her father's crime is public knowledge and she has a strained relationship with her mother and stepfather, with whom she has lived since his imprisonment.

One day at her job as a telemarketer, she is browsing a website that matches people for suicide pacts when she finds a posting from user FrozenRobot who lives in a nearby town.

Two days later, Aysel meets up with FrozenRobot (actually a seventeen-year-old boy named Roman) who insists that their joint suicide must take place on April 7.

They share a meal together Aysel observes that by all appearances Roman is attractive and popular among his peers and she wonders what reason he has to commit suicide.

Aysel and Roman subsequently plan to jump off a cliff into the Ohio River together on April 7, which will mark the one-year anniversary of Maddie's death.

Later at Roman's house, Aysel notes his talent for drawing (a hobby he took up after Maddie's death) and he spontaneously asks to come to the zoo with her and Tyler.

After Roman notes the physical and personal differences between the sisters, Aysel confesses that her father is the reason she wants to kill herself but does not reveal more out of fear that he will hate her because of his own connection to Brian Jackson.

Spending the night camping in the woods, Roman kisses her but asserts that any happiness they give each other is temporary and they can't let it stop them from jumping together on April 7.

On April 1, Aysel calls the psychiatric hospital her father is staying, but learns that since she is a minor she cannot schedule a visit with him without the consent of a guardian.

His mother tells her she gave him permission to take the family car to see her and Aysel realizes Roman is attempting to commit suicide without her.