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Avery and Marilyn are two teenage girls living with cystic fibrosis (CF), a life-threatening genetic condition that affects their lungs. They meet in a hospital, where both spend most of their days surrounded by doctors, medications, and the constant uncertainty of their futures. What starts as an unexpected friendship slowly turns into love. But loving someone with CF comes with a heartbreaking complication: they can never get too close. Because of the risk of dangerous cross-infection, they must remain at least six feet apart at all times. Eventually, they break that rule in their own way, reclaiming one foot and choosing to stand five feet apart. Tired of spending their teenage years confined to hospital rooms, the girls eventually sneak outside together. Their little adventure takes a devastating turn when one of them falls into a lake, leaving her lungs severely damaged. Both girls become seriously ill, and their conditions begin to worsen. Then a miracle arrives: a pair of donor lungs becomes available. Avery is next in line, but Marilyn desperately needs them too. Faced with the possibility of losing the girl she loves, Avery makes a decision that changes everything. She gives up her chance at receiving the lungs so Marilyn can have them instead, knowing she may not survive much longer herself. As Marilyn is rushed into preparation for surgery, Avery receives permission to go outside to the hospital’s large glass windows. On the other side, Marilyn lies in her hospital bed with a breathing tube down her throat, unable to speak. They are given one final moment together. Avery does all the talking. She tells Marilyn how much she loves her, reminds her of their memories, and promises that the distance between them never mattered. Marilyn can only look at her through the glass, knowing this might be the last time she ever sees her. Two girls who once fought to reclaim a single foot of distance are now separated by a pane of glass, facing a goodbye neither of them ever imagined.