SYNOPSIS: Through a series of 17 monologues that range from quirky to shattering, we meet a girl trying to survive an abusive mother, a writer who's also an ultimate cage fighter, an obsessive-compulsive teen, an artistic boy whose father and brother are jocks, a girl who was traumatized by her best friend's boyfriend, a lost boy, an agoraphobic young woman, among others, as they struggle to control their lives...to find themselves and put their past in perspective...to survive.