Earlier this week, the trailer for If I Stay was released.

An adaptation of Gaye Forman’s excellent young adult novel, If I Stay tells the story of Mia (played, in what would seem to be a case of perfect casting, by Chloe Grace Moretz), a talented cellist who, after being involved in a horrific traffic accident, finds herself forced to literally choose between life and death.  The book was a poignant and thought-provoking work that transcended the conventional limitations of the YA genre and it will be interesting to see how director R.J. Cutler translates the material for the big screen.

If I Stay will be released on August 22nd.