When sixteen-year-old Stephanie flees the bed of her dying mother to avoid being sent across the country to a girls’ home, she is rearranged by her mother and a caregiver, in which she has been given no part in planning.

If she hesitates too long, she’ll be led away, losing a life of adventures and uncertainty for the droll routine of an orphanage.

She knows she can’t allow that to happen.

As her mother’s life ebbs away, Stephanie stealthily exits a rear window…