When he makes a tough decision but doesn't accept Jesse's offer and live her life not afraid of death. Jesse is 17 but finds himself falling in love with Winnie so he gives her some spring water when she turns 17 they can be together forever. At first she's confused and very scared but then gets to know the family and that they all are immortal and very kind people. Winnie gets kidnapped by Jesse, his mother, and his brother. In the woods she comes across this boy named Jesse Tuck that was drinking from a spring that she finds out makes you immortal. Winnie just wants to face the world on her own and be independent so she heads off into the woods past their fenced house. She doesn't like that her family is so proper and strict and they don't let her cross past their fenced house. Her family is very proper, respectful and wealthy. And in the end, learns, that death is not what is to be feared, but an unlived life.Ī little 10 year old girl named Winnie foster doesn't like her life so much. She escapes one morning to explore the woods surrounding her family's home, and encounters the Tucks, a close-knit family with a mysterious past that begs the question: If you could live forever, would you? And just when Winnie believes she has answered that question for herself, a mysterious man looking to profit from the source of the Tuck's immortality that will have her question her life, her desires, and what is the right thing to do.
But Winnie finds that the heat of summer is not nearly as stifling as her gilded cage. She dresses in the finest clothes and is afforded every opportunity to refine herself.
She comes from a well-bred, wealthy, and respected family. Winnie Foster has everything a young woman could desire. A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.