Fourteen-year-old Nikki is forced to leave her whole world behind when her mother makes an impulsive move to Missouri. Once in the heart of Saint Louis, her mother begins a vicious cycle of abuse and abandonment, leaving Nikki to fend for herself at her grandmother's house, amidst her mother's drug addicted siblings. Humiliated, lacking resources, and feeling more than ever like a burden, Nikki decides to take matters into her own hands-when she embarks on a journey to find her father, a missing