Detroit is a thriving blue-collar town in the 1970s, an era when alcoholism and dysfunction thrive behind closed doors. When fifteen-year-old Debbie accepts a new babysitting job she has no idea that it will forever alter her life.  Mac, father of the young children she cares for, slowly begins to groom Debbie with words of praise and flattery. 
 

Longing for emotional connection she agrees to run away with Mac, only to find herself trapped in desperate poverty with a violent alcoholic.  She raises three children on roadkill meals and makes herself small and compliant, waiting for someone to save her.

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Then one night the violence threatens more than her own life and she finds the will to say, “No more.”  
 

A kidnapping, a murder and an interstate FBI manhunt further tests her resolve to break free. Along the way, she discovers unlikely allies in a pin stripe-suited lawyer, a kindhearted fast-food manager and a school patrol mom living in a cramped trailer with her tattooed stripper girlfriend. 

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She also discovers how to love and understand a mighty and formidable force:  her own mother.

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