Set in New York City, Marci is a beautiful, smart young girl having the time of her life. When illness slowly takes her daddy, it takes the life out of her mother, sending her mother into a ghost like trance oblivious to her and her sister. Only a child, suddenly she finds herself in a strange adult world, a world of hunger and the unknown, of fears a six year old does not even understand. Homeless, living on the streets of New York City, she tries to keep her fragile family together while her total recall of images, sounds and objects fills her mind with haunting nightmares of her past and of a murderer that may soon determine her future.