Madora was seventeen, headed for trouble with drugs and men, when Willis rescued her. Fearful of the world and alienated from family and friends, she ran away with him and for five years they have lived alone, in near isolation. But after Willis kidnaps a pregnant teenager and imprisons her in a trailer behind the house, Madora is torn between her love for him and her sense of right and wrong.

When a pit bull puppy named Foo brings into Madora’s world another unexpected person - Django Jones, a brilliant but troubled twelve-year-old boy - she’s forced to face the truth of what her life has become.