Songs for Alexis is a classic coming of age love story about two passionate teenagers stuck in American suburbia. 18-year-old Ryan is a talented musician and transgender, and began his transition from girl to boy 4 years earlier. He is wildly in love with the beautiful and enigmatic 16-year-old Alexis, but her parents' disapproval of Ryan forces her to choose between her family and an unsafe future with the man she loves.