Martha wanted to be a pilot, but ended up in a wheelchair. Her parents give her an electric wheel chair for her birthday and a boat trip. She wants to end her life, but people on the boat make it impossible to do so. During the trip she is busy dying but starts to live. But most of all she experiences sex with a boy to try to taste some life and she meets Robin, her new best friend who has problems of her own. In the end Martha has to decide weather to live or die.