Emancipations

A decade after being placed in a foster home, twenty-two-year-old Maggie is struggling to live a normal life.

She is friendless, unable to relate to anyone around her, and stuck working a dead-end job in a dying mall. But the arrival of Priyanka, a new hire in the mall's food court, catches her eye. Like Maggie, the sixteen-year-old seems to be on the fringes of every social circle and a resident of a broken home. Unlike her, however, Priyanka wants somebody she can call a friend. Their newfound closeness fills Maggie with abject dread, as their friendship triggers the young woman's repressed memories as she learns more about the teenager's troubled life.

Maggie begins to relive things she would rather repress. But maybe through her past, she can save Priyanka's future.