Hazel Grace is a cancer patient list that has thyroid cancer who has to take an oxygen tank wherever she gues and has to use a BIPAP when she is sleeping. . In their efforts in trying to make her more sociable and out of her room her parents and sign her up for support group. Now, Hazel Grace doesn't like support group very well, but that all changes one day when she meets Augustus Walter. After support group, Hazel Grace and Augustus Walters decide to go see a movie at his house. From there on, her and Augustus Walter had becoming closer and closer. After that night Hazel Grace and Augustus Walter decide to trade books and to call each other after they have finished reading the book. The two books were " An Imperial Affliction" and "The prince of Dawn" After reading "An Imperial Affliction" Augustus Walter and Hazel Grace decide to contact the author. So, Augustus Walter use his last wish to see the author and Amsterdam. Only for her to find out that the author was an alcoholic scumbag. But before meeting the author her and I Augustus Walter went to the "Orangjéé" café where they had a romantic time and had some Champagne as well. After this they took a seat at a bench, viewing the canals in Amsterdam. It was really romantic. After seeing Peter Van Houten, (The author of "An Imperial Affliction") Hazel Grace, August Walter and the assistant of Peter Van Houten went to Anne Franks house where the had their first kiss. After that experience Hazel gets a "special night" with Augustus. The next day, their last day in Amsterdam, Augustus tells Hazel that his Cancer is back and has spread threw out his whole body. When they return back home August cancer just gets worse. He has gotten tired more quickly, throwing up more, loosing focus and even pissing the bed. Hazel is in wrecks. For her she thought that she would be the one to die first and leave Augustus in wrecks. This is why Hazel didn't want to get in a relationship but the cards have been flipped. Several weeks August gets his closes friends which are Isaac and Hazel for a pre-funeral because he wanted to see what his funeral would be like. Two weeks later August died. Hazel went to the funeral and finally said good bye to Augustus placing a kiss on his fore head. At the funeral she runs into Van Houten. The occasion of his present wasn't that well for Hazel. That same day, she decided to go to Isaac's house where Isaac had told her that he had written something for her. In her rush to Augustus house, Van Houten pops out of her mini van. He had told her that he had a daughter that had cancer and that she died when she was eight. The reason why he acted the way he did was,i because Hazel dressed up exactly like Anna in "An Imperial Affliction". Which was based on his daughter and she was the person he wanted his daughter to grow up to be. From there on Hazel has a scavenger hunt to find these laters. Only to find out that they have been sent to Van Houten. Luckily, the assistant had retrieved them and sent them back to Hazel where he confess his true emotional feelings for Hazel.