Lisa Curry has spent a lifetime trying to manage a troubled psyche. She embraces single motherhood, determined to give her child the love and attention she never had. With her cousin's help, she finds stability, hope, and Kathleen Baker, a woman desperate for friendship.
When the world she knows starts crumbling down, Lisa fails to realize that it's her own insecurities that jeopardize her chances at happiness. It's her high-strung nature that positions her against those in power. Through many trials and periods of reflection, she learns that the only way to remedy her problems is to open herself up to the world and forfeit the security she'd spent a lifetime trying to cultivate.