For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children’s lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
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