When imaginative sixteen-year-old Stan's simple dreams of making the JV basketball team fall through, he finds himself aware of the unexpected attention of mysterious Janine Igwash, just as his father and four-year-old half brother arrive on the scene.

Not long after Hank, Ana, and Milo Vasquez's father leaves, an alien named Luz arrives and uses them to satisfy his curiosity, then leaves them forever changed.