A fifteen-year-old who lives with her mother, an ardent feminist, in a women's commune begins to discover how others live when she visits her father, a successful architect, for the first time.
Mutual need creates an intense, difficult friendship between fourteen-year-old Teri, the well-behaved "baby" of an extended Italian American family, and spoiled Valerie, who has one leg paralyzed from a freak accident.
