South Brooklyn is home to immigrants from every corner of the world, but one, Lizaveta Kirova, born in Russia, keeps a journal as she navigates life in a failing high school. She relates her story, a struggle to recapture a formative mystical experience that she had had as a child and which has been nearly suffocated by the harsh demands of city life. She forms friendships with two other outsiders and enters into an intimate relationship with a much older man that brings her to the hardest choice of her life - to follow her worldly ambition or fulfill the demands of the spirit.
South Brooklyn is home to immigrants from every corner of the world, but one, Lizaveta Kirova, born in Russia, keeps a journal as she navigates life in a failing high school. She relates her story, a struggle to recapture a formative mystical experience that she had had as a child and which has been nearly suffocated by the harsh demands of city life. She forms friendships with two other outsiders and enters into an intimate relationship with a much older man that brings her to the hardest choice of her life - to follow her worldly ambition or fulfill the demands of the spirit.