She has spent her life being forgotten, brought out by her parents only when showing her off serves them.
Jack, her father's best friend, and Bronwyn, her stepsister, are the only ones who see her clearly, even while her stepfather treats Bronwyn with affection and enters her room at night once she can no longer stay awake.
After she runs, she is homeless and alone, thinking of them constantly and unsure whether they will forgive her or realize what she fled.
She needs money for a clean break from Detroit, so she accepts a man's offer that trades sex for a way out, convinced that whoever buys her cannot hurt her more than she has already been hurt.
Instead, the buyers are the ones who save her.
