From Brussels to Los Angeles. From glitter to gutter. From homeless to homefree. "What do you do?" The question that unmakes. From a polished life to the edge of survival, wild-hearted Élisa abandons her homeland and the myth of the saved princess for the promise of California. Her family's silence and an incendiary love with a woman fracture the roles she was raised to inhabit. In Los Angeles, she trades stability for stark exposure—where ruin begins to feel like home, and hunger burns in the bone.