Something Like Gravity

As SOMETHING LIKE GRAVITY begins, Chris, a transgender teen from Buffalo, New York, has come to spend the summer with his Aunt Isobel in Carson, a tiny North Carolina town. He's still getting over the physical and emotional trauma of being severely beaten by some classmates the year before and is at odds with his mother, who's not accepted his decision to come out as transgender. A summer with his supportive and understanding aunt seems the best choice for everyone. A summer where everyone will assume he's a boy. Chris, a runner and astronomy nerd, doesn't have high expectations for his time in Carson and certainly doesn't expect to fall in love for the first time. Then he meets Maia, the girl next door, who's struggling after a family tragedy. Her older sister Mallory, a gifted photographer, died suddenly during a high school volleyball game, and in the aftermath she's getting little emotional support from her divorced parents, who've been forced by finances to continue living together in the family home. Maia is trying to reconnect with Mallory through the photographs she left behind and has no interest in a new friend or a new romance. But as they begin to open up to each other, romance does blossom, even after Chris reveals to Maia that he's transgender.