The silence between us

Maya, who is deaf, is forced to move with her family to Colorado at the start of her senior year of high school. She struggles to have a positive attitude until she meets Beau Watson, the school's student body president. Beau learns to sign in order to talk to her, and Maya grows closer to him despite warning herself that deaf and hearing relationships never work. Then Maya chooses not to have a cochlear implant, and Beau doesn't understand why. Maya wonders if he wants her to be someone she is not.