The one thing Gilly wants is a home of her own. If only she could find her mother and live with her. Instead, she finds herself in yet another foster home. As Gilly finds herself being slowly drawn into her latest foster family's circle of love, she becomes determined not to care in order to protect her feelings. When Gilly engineers her own "rescue" from her latest foster family, things don't turn out the way she plans and Gilly realizes too late that she never really wanted to be rescued at all--she just wanted to be wanted.