1944: Stella Goldschlag will Jazz-S?ngerin werden und tr?umt von einer Karriere am Broadway. Aber die Nazis beherrschen Deutschland. Und Stella ist Jüdin. Nachdem Stella zusammen mit ihren Eltern untertauchen muss, verwandelt sich ihr Lebe…
Unlike most people, Melody cannot walk or talk, but she is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her. Her classmates dismiss her as mentally challenged but Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy.
When an image-conscious wild child takes a strange new drug at a party, she undergoes a shocking transformation. Desperate to reverse the effects of the drug, she is horrified to discover that she has become the key to saving the human race.