Simon Irving has just moved to the town of Greenbush, New York with his parents.

His father is the Senior Vice President of Interflux, a large corporation that makes only components of items.

He enters into Nassau County High School for Visual, Literary and Performing Arts, an arts school, in an attempt to become a painter and therefore avoid the business job that his father has planned for him.

He uses Student Council funds to purchase a crazily shaped strip of land that Interflux is not aware of and therefore does not own.

On top of this, Simon has to keep his grades up and keep the student body from finding out that he is the Son of Interflux.