Will finds Stella's Vlog on YouTube, in which Stella discusses living with CF. She meets another CF patient, Will Newman (Cole Sprouse), and they quickly develop feelings for each other. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is a cystic fibrosis (CF) patient who actively uses social media to cope with her illness and try to live a normal life. Will (Cole Sprouse), a newcomer to the hospital where she resides, also has the disease. Though fictional, the film is dedicated to Claire Wineland, a cystic fibrosis patient who helped create the film and, like Stella, created YouTube videos of her experiences with the disease.
There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. In Five Feet Apart, Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) is a teenager with cystic fibrosis. A young adult novel published by Simon and Schuster, Five Feet Apart was adapted into a popular film by the same name in 2019.
Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson In this 1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control - all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing, Young Adult Fiction - 288 pages.
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient.