Nadine, a brilliant high school student, is ridiculed and bullied by her classmates because she comes from the "holler" where the poor people live. To add to her life's burden, she is abused by her violent father who shows up in her family's life occasionally to torment and terrorize her, her mother and little brother, Squirrelly. When Papa kidnaps her and sells her to a brothel, she must nd a way to escape. While her mother and her best end, Sierra, have both encouraged her to trust in God, it would take a miracle to make her believe.