Plot: Schoolgirl Astrid shares an idyllic life with her mother Ingrid, a beautiful and free-spirited artist. When her mum is suddenly sent to prison for life for committing a crime of passion, the 12-year-old is set adrift in the world. Alone to struggle to become her own person, she goes through foster home after foster home experiencing forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation and how it feels to be loved.