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A restless child of the 1960s Marilyn yearns for love hippiedom and escape from her controlling mother At fourteen she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver British Columbia eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls At sixteen shes emancipated navigating adulthood without a high school diploma and craving a soulmate When she falls in love with Jack the grad student living next door life finally seems perfect The two embark on a crosscontinental bicycle trip headed for South America but before they reach Mexico tragedy strikes