"The whole of a young life is measured in its summers." - Grandma McCurtis
Welcome to the summer of 1996 in Rutledgeville, Virginia. It's a town that sits in the shadow of a large water tower, where everyone knows everyone, and the high school class each year has the same last names in the yearbook as the one 20 years before.
Together with new friends and an entire summer before them, the girls of The Rut will forge the new frontiers of first love, first loss, and first true friendship. Before those three months of summer are over, one thing will be clear: summer will be the one that stands out above them all.
