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At 24, Hazel Kash is a single mother and barista grinding through life in Hollywood while raising her daughter, Arya, with help from her quiet but dependable father, Troy. Haunted by the absence of her Italian mother Angelyne, who walked out when Hazel was five, she's spent most of her life trying not to care.
But now, Arya is five-and the mirror of her own childhood is too loud to ignore.
Determined to uncover the truth, Hazel packs up her late boyfriend's Camaro and hits the road with Arya by her side, on a cross-country journey from California to Chicago. Along the way, they encounter flat tires, flirty motel clerks, and memories that refuse to stay buried-including the pain of losing Amari, Arya's father, to gang violence.
What starts as a trip for answers turns into a reckoning with grief, identity, motherhood, and the generational silence passed down like an heirloom. But the truth about Angelyne isn't what Hazel expects-and by the time she reaches the door of her grandparents' home in Little Italy, she realizes she isn't just searching for her mother...
She's searching for herself.