Willow Briar and her brother, Alex, take shifts caring for their three younger siblings after their father is whisked away to prison and their mother rots away in bed. Money runs tight and free time runs sparse between the eldest siblings as the youngest three struggle to adjust to the change of their guardianship and instability of their home. The family barely manages to make due, and the air is ever remaining thick with tension. But when Willow is kidnapped and forced to become a part of a new family, how can she manage to leave them? And how can her first home stay afloat without her?