Scene of the crime

Aloma Nie's mother had died and her father was too weak to care for her, so she is sent to the orphanage. She later tries to run away and return home, but her father is desperately ill and in hospital. Aloma then goes back to the orphanage where she spends the next four years dealing with bad news, scary stories, terrible food, hard homework & schooling, and stinky kids. At the age of 16, she decides to get a job. At her new fast-food workplace, she meets a girl called Issy Jacobs. They start of as friends, but it slowly evolves into something more, until they are split apart...