Lorraine is a high school student in the 1960s w/ a bright future ahead when she gets pregnant. Her parents send her to a maternity home (which I did not know was a thing). She‘s basically looses of all rights/her future simply because she is a pregnant girl.
I was impressed by how developed Lorraine & the other characters were considering that many characters had limited page time. Like Lorraine, so many of them were complex & multidimensional.