SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE LIFE IS TO TRIUMPH OVER IT. A dark cloud follows Kithira Manoff. She lives in a neighborhood that is rough and dangerous. She works at jobs where she is discriminated against. No matter how hard she tries, she knows that others are jealous of her and want nothing more than to keep her down. The men who lust for her, she is reviled by. The ones she cannot have, she fantasizes about. Hers is a tormented life - trapped between love and hate for the people who surround her, as well as for the community in which she lives. Then she meets Diea, a young pregnant girl whose life has been marred by physical and sexual abuse. As for their friendship grows, Kithira comes to feel that their destinies are intertwined - for if Diea can get out of the mess her life has become, so Kithera may too.