Composer Brynn McAllister faces an impasse with the boundary of her creative ability—her magnum opus lay dormant, refusing to emerge. When a diabetic retinal hemorrhage claims her sight, she buries both her unfinished music and her impenetrable grief. Brittle and isolated, she is utterly unprepared to witness her phoenix rise in the unlikeliest of places—within the walls of St. Matthew’s Academy for At-Risk Students.