Description

17-yr-old Shavonne has been around juvenile detention because the seventh-grade. Mister Delpopolo may be the first therapist to deal with her being an equal, and he helps her reach the underside of her self destructive behaviour, her shame about previous activities, and her worries about making the Middle when she turns 18. Shavonne shows him the reality about her crack-addicted mother, the kid she'd (and threw in the towel to foster-care) at fifteen, and the key pity she thinks about what she did to her young brother after her mother abandoned them. Shavonne's psychologically unstable partner Cinda makes a rash move, meanwhile, and Shavonne's quick thinking saves her lifestyle