Heather Johnson shares her raw and real-life experience growing up in a severely flawed foster care system. With a mother tormented by demons from her past, and an emotionally absent father, Heather and her three siblings are left to fend for themselves in a dysfunctional world full of chaos. But when the state steps in to help, Heather finds herself thrust into a broken foster care system. As a scrappy nine-year-old, she is forced to grow up fast while being misguided, misunderstood, and angry as hell. As she bounces from one placement to another, will she make it through each new trial that comes her way or will her life go completely off the tracks?

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