Be Your Own Light · EP 19

BE YOUR OWN LIGHT — Plot Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Allie Chen has spent three years absorbing the fists of her drunk stepfather, Carl, in a crumbling tenement on the wrong side of town. One desperate dawn she presses a fruit knife to her own throat, daring him to come closer — and buys herself a way out. With forty dollars lifted from his wallet and a tube of cheap ointment