The story follows the main character, Hazel as she battles cancer. Not only is Hazel trying to live the normal life of a 16-year-old girl, While Hazel attends a church support group for cancer survivors, she meets a boy that is one year older than her, Augustus. While Augustus had a type of cancer that causes him to lose his leg and wear a prosthetic Augustus even uses a wish foundation to fly him and Hazel to Amsterdam, where the author lives, to talk with him in person. While Hazel is the one that is doomed to die, Augustus ends up telling Hazel that at his recent scan, the doctors discovered that his entire body is filled with cancer. Hazel spends the last months of Augustus's life caring for him and loving him.