It's 1987. Heavy Metal is big and so is the hair. Set in a Maryland suburb, this coming-of-age story follows fourteen-year-old Ellie Roma -a thinker and aspiring writer- who must cope with an alcoholic mother and a volatile head-banging big sister. Ellie spends a lot of time alone, especially at night, when all she has to keep her company are the fireflies that flicker in the summer air . . . and the undying hope that someone will come and rescue her from her unhappy life. Then one day Leo enters her dark world. Leo is handsome, older and on his way to Hollywood to become a rock star. Ellie hopes that Leo will be the one to save her. Instead, Leo teaches Ellie that no one can save you -you have to find a way to save yourself. So one night --one terrible, frightening, thrilling night-- that's exactly what Ellie decides to do.
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