This is the story of a teenage girl who, in a single day, loses everything. Her first thirteen years were spent in a prosperous family—with a loving mother and father—or rather, with people she believed were her mother and father. One day, she is told that she must return to her birth family: move from a seaside resort town to a poor settlement, share a gloomy cramped house with her sister and four brothers. Twice abandoned, she can’t understand what she did wrong and who her real mother is…