You can’t live w so much contempt

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.