Love, Debra

Fifteen year old Debra takes the family Cadillac and runs away from her sexually abusive father, his mistress, and the grave of her alcoholic mother. Lonely, Debra begins a series of letters to her dead mother which reveal her odyssey through the underworld of alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. She meets kindly Richard, and they head for San Francisco, hoping for a new life. When the letters end, we too have lived through her experiences of addiction, abortion, welfare, and AIDS.