Saffron is a fourteen year old girl living in Antoninio.

In fact, Saffron is quite a normal girl, but her name evokes a promise, a peculiarity, an instant sympathy. She is smart, funny and whimsical.

'When I worked at Robi's I must have had the metabolism of rabbit ? a skinny rabbit, not one of those overfed ones ? because I ate a lot of fried foods and never topped one hundred and twenty pounds. Maybe it was all that running around. It could have just been hormones.'

Her life is not very adventurous, but one day her parents buy a diner. She starts working there to save money. For she has a dream. There is this new and enigmatic girl Clair in her class. Clair could be seen as the personalization of what life has in store for Saffron. Maybe.