خلاصه داستان : جولی شانزده ساله، علی‌رغم بیماری و هشدارهای پزشکان و خانواده‌اش، تصمیم می‌گیرد که به رویاهایش پایبند باشد. او از عشقش باردار می‌شود و با پنهان کردن بارداری‌اش، تصمیم می‌گیرد که بچه را نگه دارد. جولی با این کار، به همه یادآوری می‌کند که زندگی کوتاه است و باید از لحظات آن به بهترین شکل ممکن...

Julie would have given up all her dreams if she had listened to the doctors, her parents and others: the disease was threatening to suffocate her lungs. But the sixteen year old did as she pleased, devouring life to the fullest. Madly in love with her first flirt of the same age, she falls pregnant with him and decides to keep the baby. She hides her pregnancy from her parents, from the doctors, and come what may. Julie has defied the adult world, armed with a conviction in the form of a lesson for all: it is because life can be short that it must be intense.