Whittier opens the door and politely declines the cake since it's coming from outside. That night, Olly and his sister Kara (Taylor Hickson) walk over to the Whittier home to give them a bundt cake that their mom made. He looks up at Maddy's window and smiles at her. She sees Oliver "Olly" Bright (Nick Robinson) riding his skateboard down the street. One day, Maddy spots new neighbors moving in next door. She spends most of her time immersing herself in books and writing reviews on them, as well as watching movies with her mom, or building models with an astronaut figure inside. Maddy is part of an online support group where she talks to other people with SCID. Hermosillo), who are the only other people allowed in the house. Her only friends are her nurse Carla (Ana de la Reguera) and Carla's daughter Rosa (Danube R. Maddy's brother and father also died in a car accident years earlier. Her mother (Anika Noni Rose) has kept her in the house for most of her life after she was a child and suffered multiple ear infections and cases of pneumonia. Maddy explains that she has always lived with a rare condition called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), meaning her antibodies are not able to properly fight off infection. It gives her a nice view of the outside, as she enjoys imagining what it would be like to set foot out there, particularly in the ocean. The opening scene shows Madeline "Maddy" Whittier (Amandla Stenberg) sitting in what she considers her favorite room in the house.
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