Five Feet Apart

Can you truly love someone you must never physically touch? Stella Grant is a young woman who thrives on maintaining order, despite the chaos caused by her lungs that have forced her in and out of hospitals for much of her existence. Her primary concern now is to avoid any person or situation that could lead to an infection, thereby risking her chance for a life-saving lung transplant. Maintaining a strict distance of six feet from others is non-negotiable.On the other hand, Will Newman is determined to break free from the confines of the hospital. He shows little interest in his treatment regimen or the promising new drug trial. His main focus is reaching his eighteenth birthday, when he aims to disconnect from the medical machines and explore the world beyond hospital walls.For Stella, Will embodies exactly whom she should avoid. Any contact with him could cost her a place on the critical transplant list, and both their lives hang in the balance. Their survival depends on keeping their distance. Despite this, the necessary six-foot separation starts to feel less like a precaution and more like a prison.They begin to wonder if reclaiming even a fraction of the space that their failing lungs have deprived them of is possible. Could reducing the distance to five feet really be so perilous, if it means protecting their hearts from further sorrow?