Francesca Baby — Joan Oppenheimer

She hears the cry in the night… “Francesca? Baby?... and thinks, My mother is a drunk.

Together Francesca and her sister manage to survive a mother who is rarely sober, a father who is seldom home. But resentment, anger, guilt, hopelessness still build up in Francesca. Even her new found love for Bix can't solve her problems. There has to be help somewhere. But where?