Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home.When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and dead-beat father, Lucy unravels.They run to their grandparents' place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy's barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They've joined a gang called VC. Lucy thinks it harmless at first, and joins with them just for the thrill of it. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns.When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three girls head for LA seeking a better life. But trouble always follows Lucy.She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang. After getting arrested for tagging, stealing cars, and finding herself on her knees with a gun to her forehead, she turns to drugs.It's only when she starts trading her teenage body for meth in a remote hotel room that she realizes how far things have gone.Lucy's struggle isn't her own. Every bad choice she makes drags the family into her dangerous world. Told from three points of view, the story follows Lucy down the rabbit hole, but also her mother and sister as they struggle with how to handle losing her, sacrificing dreams and happiness, friendships and futures.Love is waiting for all of them in LA, but pursuing a life without Lucy could mean losing her forever.Ultimately it's their bond with each other that holds them together, in a true test of love, loss and survival.
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