At just nine years old, Gina has to care for her two younger siblings and a mother who is too young, single, alcoholic, and expecting her fourth child. She longs for a stable family, a father figure, and a loving grandmother. Instead, she is forced to confront poverty, the abandonment of her mother’s latest lover, and the pressure of social services. However, Gina refuses to accept a fate of failures, which threatens to pass inexorably from mother to daughter.
