Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a c
hild who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met
. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panoptic
on, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspiciou
s as its residents. But Anais can't remember the events that have led her there,
or why she has blood on her school uniform...