Nova, a 14 year old girl lives in an inner city with a foster family. She often goes hungry and lately is getting into trouble in school. Nova has had enough of the difficult life she has lived. She seeks refuge one day by taking a bus ride to a national state forest where she encounters all sorts of characters she never encountered before. Is she willing to listen to the advice they give her? Nova is ready to turn her life around and she returns home with the tools to do this. This is the story of a girl learning how to cope with the trauma in her life.