Mid-1990s, New York. Patti, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school students and best friends preparing for life after graduation. Their dreams for the future are very different – Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki are about to go to college, and Patti is a young mother looking for stability in the life of her child – but the four bright young women are unwaveringly devoted to each other in a way only they know how to do. teenagers Then their lives are completely turned upside down when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry and forced to return to everyday life without satisfying their feelings, the girls must come of age with a new understanding of the patriarchal world in which they live.