Heinous Souls: Dire Straits

Sixteen-year-old Connor has endured a string of losses: his biological mother died in a car accident when he was four, and his father Tom - a traveling salesman - died of pneumonia at thirty-two when Connor was thirteen. With no other relatives, he remained with his stepmother Amanda, who had married Tom at twenty-five and initially provided caring maternal support.
After Tom's death Amanda, overwhelmed and unsupported, she turned to exotic dancing to survive and gradually sank into heavy dr...