It's the Summer of 1984. Isabella is thirteen and three months old and feels ripe and ready for love. But, ignoring her mother's advice to wait for her destiny to arrive, Isabella decides that she will make her own 'destino'. When she falls for Al, a mysterious, older boy from her neighbourhood, Isabella knows that she has found her soul mate. What she doesn't expect is the confusion and difficulties she must face on the path to true love.