Life on a "hand to mouth" basis is tough. This the Day family knew well. Pauline, just 14 was delivering a baby that would be adopted. This started a life of more uncertainty and error.
Difficulties with innocence and age brings on one mistake to another. Life goes on to treat her with almost happiness, then quickly drops another tragedy that proceeds with no mercy.
Searching for an existence becomes sad details that rule. Each event engulfs more hopelessness and it becomes a weird way of life. Pauline constantly grasps entanglements leading nowhere.
The question is - How and where misery, bad luck and unhappiness end?