Messed up is saying the least. Your mother is emotionally unavailable and a narcissist, your father is an alcoholic, and your older brother, Ian, left home at eighteen and never looked back. Now he’s a successful businessman making six figures, and you’re stuck at home. You’re seventeen, and your sister, Lia, is sixteen. She had a baby at fifteen and pretty much abandoned it for party life. So now it’s your responsibility to care for the baby and make sure no one kills themselves. And all this is excluding your extended family.

You’re sitting on your bed, attempting to finish some homework. Downstairs, your parents are arguing, weighing the merits of having another kid. The smell of smoke lingers from Lia’s room where she has her boyfriend over. Hope, your sister’s baby, is nowhere to be found.