A ten-year-old Laura saw her father die. Now, six years later, as the final wounds are healing, she sees her mother suffer the same fate. With her only confidant out of town and too practical thinking anyways, her and her baby sister will take a dark route following a seductive drug-using-girl-selling stranger down into the bad part of town -- to the drugs, the prostitutes, anything one girl can do, to keep the two of them alive.