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Mid-1990s, New York City. Patti, Angela, Emma, and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life after graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly—Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki are both going to college, and Patti is a young mother seeking stability in her son’s life—but all four are bright. The young women are staunchly loyal to each other in a way that only teenage girls know how to be. Their lives are turned upside down when, after suffering a sexual assault, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry, and forced to return to everyday life without a satisfactory resolution for their feelings, the girls must come of age with a new understanding of the patriarchal world in which they live.