Reena has her entire life ahead of her. She has loving parents, a caring boyfriend, dreams of becoming a nurse after high school, and on her seventeenth birthday her parents give her her first car. But what started as a day of joy ends in senseless tragedy as Reena, carelessly speeding on her first joyride in the new car, crashes into a tree, injuring her boyfriend and paralyzing herself from the waist down.

While Reena's initial reaction is one of determined optimism, cruel reality soon drags her down into a dismal depression. Her boyfriend has left her, unwilling to date a girl confined to a hospital bed. She is forced to come to terms with the fact that her paralysis is so severe that she has no chance of recovery, she falls behind in school, and she sees her dream of becoming a nurse crumbling before her eyes—what doctor needs a nurse to assist him who can't even stand up?

Fortunately, Reena doesn't have to deal with the tragedy alone. Reena is far from the first person to become paralyzed, and there are people out there that understand her plight and want to help. In this case, help comes in the form of a girl her own age, also paralyzed. She helps Reena understand that her life is far from over and teaches her that the only way to conquer paralysis is to embrace it as a part of who you are.

If the director and cast choose, "wheelies"—riding a wheelchair on its rear wheels and doing tricks can be incorporated into the finale. Warning: Doing "wheelies" is a dangerous activitiy. Always have somebody close behind the person doing a "wheelie" to prevent accidents and injury.

One act; several scenes will be represented by various properties and lights; Present time.

Others by Jackson: Rag Dolls, Amazing Grace and Her Jellybean Tree

See also: Awareness Plays for Young Adults, Plays About Personal Relationships