Pandora had been through every pain that is in the world. Disease, her mother had suffered from cancer for a huge part of her life. Poverty, she had lived in the smallest of apartments, a small two-roomed flat, with only a broken mattress that she had shared with her mother as a bed. Hatred and Violence, from the other kids at her school. Death, when her mothers suffering finally ends. Now, she is being sent to live with her Father, a man she had never met or seen, only heard stories of from her Mother. To live in New York City, the city of dreams! But now she is faced with Envy for her step family who grew up in riches and happiness. Despair towards the lose of her wonderful Mother. Malice to her Father who ignores her in favour for his work and proper family. And is at War with herself and her emotions. To escape she writes letters to the one person who always understood her. Her Mother. But its hard to know what to do if the person you're writing to can't write back. As she writes she soon discovers that although she's lost one of the most important people in her life she is slowly making a new start and is starting to have HOPE for the future...