This book details the lives of two sisters- Willow and Emilee. The two girls are the children of an abusive alcoholic father and a drug-addicted mother. Through their entire childhoods, they have but one wish: to live their rat ingested home in the slums and make something better of themselves. Yet as time goes on, only one sister is able to make the right choices in the wrong circumstances, and the two are slowly torn apart until they do not even known one another anymore. Where will the two Benson girls end up? You'll have to read to find out.