Seen through the eyes of a 3-year-old girl, Autumn tries to navigate her way through a life of poverty, of her teenage mother's incarceration and foster care. Charming, obedient, and unable to fully comprehend the severity of her environment, Autumn is shielded from her own reality. Caught between the innocence of child and the growing necessity to be an adult, she represents hope to a family of women caught in the cyclical web of abuse, addiction, incarceration and poverty.