In 1994, high school dropout April sets out on a journey to find herself a better life after fighting with her dad in their broken-down motorhome. April ends up in Ithaca, New York, and finds herself drawn to the people at the local coffee shop. Yet, as April begins to feel at home, she worries she will only end up hurting the people to whom she becomes close.

A coming-of-age story that speaks on the importance of found family, The People We Keep never really captured me. I struggled to like April, a lost soul who veered from completely independent and guarded to instantly clinging to much older men. The age gaps in the romances were alarming, and the story overall felt overdone and pointless.