Cara is a teenage girl who comes from a broken home. A schizophrenic father who is in an insane asylum. A mother who abuses her and let's her older brother rape her. She stats starving herself after a boy calls her fat and ends up wanting to die after her starvation becomes a habit. She comes across a physiatrist named Sarah who takes on her case pro bono to keep Cara from losing herself completely to anorexia.