Jodie ran away from a loveless home two years ago scraping by on her own in a dingy studio apartment After she learns that her younger brother has been fighting people at school Jodie must reenter her past life to pull him from their mothers oppressive grasp before his situation gets even worse After wading through and reigniting past conflicts with a new perspective and putting her brother in more danger than he was already she must decide whether her brother is the one that needs saving after all