Lucy Harris is exactly ten years, two months and twelve days when she and her older sister are taken into care, for their mother gets drunk and violent. A short holiday is what they need. But when tragedy strikes, Lucy and her sister Saffron, might be spending more than a little holiday at the care home. Lucy and Saffron go from foster home to foster home, but will anything ever be the same again?
And how is it that even a little Aspergers girl can change the lives of so many people?