Love First

With diabolical characters, real struggles, and profound emotions, Love First chronicles the journey of young Sheila as she grows intoadulthood. Inspired by true events, Sheila's coming-of-age story is about escaping the legacy of an abusive household. A strikingly dark narrative of the struggles of African American families in America and the unintended prejudices that come with it, Sheila, accompanied by her sister Lita, and her cousin Sarah, must persevere through harassment, emotional manipulation, physical abuse, and teenage pregnancy. She grows from a strong-willed, well-intentioned, albeit slightly gullible, young woman into a fierce adult who vows to fight for her children until the very end. After making it out, she finds herself on a drastically different path from Lita and Sarah, and she falls back into the same patterns that she so desperately wanted to avoid. She becomes the very thing that she wholeheartedly despises: her mother.