Julie is Ada Val's troubled and some time's crazy older sister. Julie has always been the odd one in the family, the black sheep. Julie is over 400 pounds; she uses drugs, she is out all hours of night, either getting drugs or getting men. Julie never spends time with her three kids who she always leaves with Ada. Ada spends most of her free time with the kids making sure they are all right. Ada wants to finish college while dealing with deaths of her best friends Lillian Booth Kincaid and Lori Jones. But Ada doesn't want to spend all of her time cleaning up after Julie. Nor does she wish to see her young nieces and nephew without a mother. Ada wants Julie to do what's right before ACS steps in and it will be out of everyone's hands.