Her dad gives her a present, and it's a guitar from Katie's mom who we find out died when Katie was very young. Fast forward to present day and teenage Katie (Bella Thorne) is graduating from high school, only she's been home schooled. One of the young kids knocks on Katie's door, and her father (Rob Riggle) says she can't come out and play cause it's daytime, but this girl whose name is Morgan demands to see her and says she'll be back later. The narrator (older Katie) talks about how she has such a crush on Charlie who she's obviously never met. Next thing we see a young boy named Charlie skating by on his skateboard.
There's a group of kids outside of Katie's house pointing at her windows saying she's a vampire that never comes out during the daytime. Her name is Katie Price, and she has Xeroderma Pigmentosum which is a rare disease that forces her to stay out of the sunlight cause sun rays can cause severe damage to her skin. The film begins with a young girl who lives in a house with her father somewhere in Washington State.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. He explains to her how he got his injury that prevented him from getting a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley before kissing her on one of the boats. He returns the next day, and gives it to Katie when she shows up to retrieve it. Katie leaves suddenly, and forgets her notebook, which Charlie keeps.
One night, she is noticed and asked out by her longtime crush, Charlie, while playing guitar at the train station. Katie comes out of the house every night, when the sun is not present. During the day, she is housebound, having only her father, Jack and her best friend, Morgan, to keep her company. Sheltered since early childhood, Katie Price lives with a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight caused by the rare genetic condition, Xeroderma Pigmentosum. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance. A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.īased on the Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie, a 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly.