Lily is an academically brilliant girl from a poor district in NYC who lives with her unavailable single mother and chronically ill younger sister Winona. Before going off to college, Lily gets the opportunity to win a scholarship which will secure her the key to get out of the hard life she has...
On their seventeenth birthday, a young teen stands at the threshold of time, grappling with the bittersweet realization that their childhood and the world they once knew are slipping away.
