Twelve-year-old Addison Jones would love to try out for the track team, and she knows that she is faster than the other girls, but her single mom is working two jobs and every day after school Addison has to take care of her little brother. Without telling her mom, Addison and her best friend, Sofia, work out a plan that will allow her to run. Soon the strain and guilt of lying to her mother begins to take its toll.