Love, Debra

15 year old Debra takes the family Cadillac and runs away from home leaving her sexually abusive father, his mistress, and the grave of her alcoholic mother. Lonely, Debra begins a series of letters to her dead mother revealing her odyssey through the underworld of the streets. Debra then explores alcohol, drugs, and prostitution and meets Richard, the kind, middle-aged night clerk. 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.