Abby Brenner faces impossible struggles. She became a mother at fifteen, on welfare, living in a run-down house while raising two sons, Peter and Alex. Abby struggles to keep sanity in her life as well as her sons. While being faced with betrayal, poverty, and heartbreaks, she must keep going because her sons are everything to her. Will having her own flesh question his racial existence tear her soul? What happens when a family is divided by color?