Allie Little is a teenager, living in Grenton - a perfect, happy suburban town where people sometimes break into song and dance. Sounds amazing, right? Except he hates it, and wants to escape to the city. However, on the day he intends to leave, he is involved in a car accident and wakes up in the hospital, completely unable to sing. Rejected as a freak by his home-town, Allie - and his friends in the Musical Deficiency Support Group - soon begin to uncover the dark secret of Grenton and to realise it my not be so perfect after all.