After being abandoned by her parents, fifteen year old India must break through the shadows of her past and adjust to the life of a foster kid with the help of the twelve other residents in her foster home.
16 year old Rosamund Rosenthal struggles to manage to stay with one family after her parents die and she becomes a foster child.
With most of her family from Germany she is constantly traveling back and forth from the U.S to stay with relatives.
When she finally manages to settle with a foster family there son sweeps her of of her feet but then has to go to war and passes.
Her new family sends her back into the system and she has to start all over again.