Ava
was born with wings. No one called them that until she was two years
old. She hides her wings under a special device her father made for her.
She never takes off her backpack
at school. No one knows her secret, not even her best friend Theo, who
was born with two different-colored eyes. The doctor told Ava that she
can choose to have the wings removed when she turns sixteen.
The
big day arrives, and she can’t decide what to do. Without her wings,
Ava thinks she can be like everybody else. But
is that what she really wants? When Ava makes a new friend at school,
she begins to see things–and herself–in new ways. Lucy offers her
friendship and exquisite drawings of wings. Lucy makes Ava think.
The Other asks us to consider what
it means to be different and what it means to accept the unique parts of ourselves.