Life is bleak for 10-year-old misfit Dorrie, whose restrictive upbringing by her disillusioned grandmother leaves her with few friends and a desire to keep running away. But now her mother Lorna is coming home for one of her rare visits, this time determined to turn over a new leaf--stay off drugs, make peace with her mother, and raise her daughter. All Dorrie wants is to have her little family back to what it once was, but the future will come at a higher price than any of them can imagine.