Far too many children can say they know the depths of growing up with an alcoholic mother.
Iris Hawthorne is one of them.
A youth filled with turbulence and tragedies in upstate New York, Iris strives most to become anything unlike her mother, Vera.
She takes her first opportunity to get away for college and heads south to New Orleans.
Iris tries to start a new life, attempting to suppress her old fears and anxieties.
However, without truly getting help, she finds herself shifting into .