Everything his mother said was final, no ifs or buts. For 12 years, Astrid grew up with her mother making all of her life decisions, but when Ingrid murders her ex-boyfriend and goes to prison, Astrid is sent to a foster care system where she lives with different mothers. During this journey, she attempts to discover who she is as a person and break free from her mother's shadow. Astrid first understood that she existed in her mother's shadow when she discovered that Ingrid had no faith in anything but herself, no higher laws, no morality. Ingrid believed she could justify anything just because she wanted to. Fearing becoming like her mother, Astrid decides to believe in something greater. "The question of good and the nature of evil will always be one of the most intriguing problems in philosophy... If evil means being motivated, being the center of one's own universe, living on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original spirit is bad. Because we dare to look with our own eyes rather than through the clichés attributed to us by the so-called Fathers. ”