Despite a difficult early start, Sita is managing to enjoy life. She enjoys school and works hard, achieving good academic results. She has close friends and a blossoming friendship with a boy at her school, Ram. As the eldest child of a large family, Sita has adoring younger siblings and Ama, a middle aged woman who single-handedly runs a large orphanage where Sita lives on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Ama is the most adoring Mother-figure a child could ever have. Over the course of one short summer, Sita’s life is turned upside down. Battling poverty, emotional and sexual abuse, Sita is stripped of everything she holds dear and learns what it means to hit rock bottom. Sita is left frantically clinging onto the shadow of the intelligent and confident girl she once was. This is the story of a poor orphan girl.