Kat's shoplifting increases as she dreads the return of her sister Hannah from a home for troubled teens.

When Sandra sets out to find her mother, who left her family behind with an alcoholic father, she wonders how to locate a person who does not want to be found.

When Jackie's father leaves her mother, she must deal with her mother working as a maid, her boyfriend dumping her, and the sick girl across the street, and finds strength in an unexpected place--her father's new girlfriend, a tattoo artist.

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