The Year of the Child

<p>Fifteen year-old Leanne Ellsworth leaves her infant daughter in a planter on a stranger's front porch and walks away She has been convinced by her abusive boyfriend Peter that she has no choice: she can abandon her child or he will kill them both.</p><p></p><p>Without her baby girl Leanne's fear turns to anger then self-pity and finally a determination to get her child back. She enlists the help of an over-worked legal aid attorney her long-suffering mom Vennie and Mary Beth Coggins on whose porch she left the baby.</p><p></p><p>As Leanne navigates the layers of bureaucracy now standing between her and her daughter she finds a strength she never imagined she possessed while she was being bullied by Peter: a strength that allows her to take command of her own life and to make decisions based on what is best for herself and her child.</p>