Janice

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Janice, a teenager, shares a room with her mother in a tenement yard. Her mother, a caregiver with dreams of becoming a nurse, goes to work in an upper St. Andrew suburb. Janice is excited and happy to accompany her mother to live in new luxurious surroundings. She already attends a high school where she finds it difficult to adjust because her classmates are mostly from wealthy families, and she soon realizes that life is not a 'bed of roses', even in her new environment. Follow Janice's journey as she jumps over the hurdles in her path, stumbling but never falling...