Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born & she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreals red light district with her father Jules who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence & a constant source of chaos in Babys life
- the turmoil he brings with him & the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations new foster homes new places new people all the while longing for stability & a normal life. But Baby has a gift
- the ability to find the good in people a genius for spinning stories & for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright smart funny & observant about life on the dirty streets of a city & wise enough to realise salvation rests in her own hands.