Description

Summer time of 1978, five-year-old Vicki Anderson rides her bicycle to the neighborhood playground and goes lost. Her small-knit blue-collar California community, where kids wander the streets during the night enjoying turbo label, aboveground pools twinkle in yards, and blossoms smell the atmosphere, won't ever function as the same.Down the road from Vicki’s home, another family is in turmoil. Troubled by her previous, headstrong Natalia Kisch has forgotten her two kids and husband for another guy. Joe Kisch, hurting with his rage, is left to boost their women alone, oblivious to his daughters’ challenges with each disappearances: Eva, seventeen, falls into an affair with her married senior school instructor, and nine-year-old Sissy escapes to an environment of creativity and story-telling that becomes so enchanting it pierces the truth of the daily.