Family are those we pick along the way.
Cynthia is bound to learn this lesson the hard way. Raised in the Foster system, and recently widowed, she finds herself in the very difficult situation of raising her six-years-old daughter, her one and only driving force, without any kind of support.
But this is no small feat. Bills pile up in her house, and day after day it gets increasingly hard to get as much as a decent meal on her table. If this keeps up, Cynthia risks even losing her daughter.
It's Mathilde Royston, a difficult and lonely old woman, the one giving Cynthia the chance she so desperately needs. Although eccentric and short-tempered, Mathilde's heart isn't carved from stone, and though she likes to keep others away, she can't help but warm up for the witty six-year-old Jeanne, thus setting up the foundations in which this unlikely trio will learn the most important lesson of their lives: nothing beats the bond of a family, not even if isn't blood-related.
Mia's backstory as a Foster Kid is her Mom isn't there for her. She is yet to be adopted to a permanent family. She's been through abandonment with her Mom not being there for her and her Dad abandoning her too. Mia wonders if she'll ever have a Happy Family Home again. She is always scared of what will happen to her in her temporary foster family. Her Temporary Foster Family doesn't even care for her. She's sad because she wants a Happy Family, A Family that doesn't leave her like her Mom and her Dad did, She is a Foster Kid so she has to do everything herself as a Foster Kid because her temporary foster Mom ignores her that they forget she exists in the house. She is now in her temporary foster home and Elsalotte ignores her and Mia ends up doing everything herself. Every temporary family she goes to. She gets ignored by her temporary family she was in by her temporary foster Mom. Her temporary mom doesn't care for her and she wishes that she never adopted Mia as she is not her real daughter at all. Mia seems to do everything herself since Elsalotte doesn't wanna do anything not even cook or do the dishes for her. She has OCD so that everything is sterilized and clean and that her hands feel clean to reduce infection and so that she isn't contaminated by bacteria and get sick and such and she finds Love and etcera. Tammylotte decides to bring Mia a Brother to play with which means she adopts another Foster Kid too. Credit photo and chapters photo cred is from The Nursery Nurse.