White Oleander. Fitch D.

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, an Ingrid who uses its beauty to manipulate men. Astrid adores the mother, but their life collapses when Ingrid kills his lover and is sentenced to life imprisonment...

years of loneliness and struggle for survival, years of wandering in foster families, where Astrid tries to find his place. Each house is another universe, with a new set of laws and lessons that can be extracted. But the world rejects each time.

From time to time, Astrid visits Ingrid in prison, but she, obsessed with love for her daughter, envy and jealousy, tries to control her life. The girl tries to break out from under the suffocating custody of her mother and follow her own way...