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Mid-1990s New York. Patty, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life after graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly – Angela wants to be a poet, Emma and Nikki are headed to college, and Patty is a young mother looking for stability in her child’s life – but the four smart, young women are steadfast in their commitment to each other in a way that only teenagers can be. Their lives are turned upside down when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grief-stricken, angry and forced to return to their everyday lives without fulfilling their feelings, the girls must come of age with a new understanding of the patriarchal world they live in.