“I was never supposed to get a second chance. I was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. However, one magical signature from the governor of the state of Missouri decided that the prison gates were opened for me after all. After eighteen years, instead of Convict Number 85704, I could be Stacey Ann Lannert again." Thus begins the shocking story of a tortured and sexually abused girl, which takes us to America in the seventies and eighties. Stacey was abused by her own father from the age of eight, her mother ignored everything and eventually left the family. Little Stacey and her younger sister Christy stayed with their father, who drank and abused his daughters. After several attempts to leave, Stacey finds herself in a hopeless situation...