It's August and people are setting off on their yearly holiday. It's a time of excitement and promise and happy families and Lily is in the back seat of the car, scribbling in her notebook and sick of her parents.

But what if she were really free of them? What if they were to drive off without her? So begins Lily's unusual holiday.

But is Lily living an adventure, caught up in a tragedy or playing her own very peculiar game?