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Through the combined efforts of a Rolling Stone Magazine photographer, a reporter for the Macon News, and a Catholic priest, a young runaway graffiti artist with a troubled childhood is given a second chance, when she is caught out as the author of street graffiti, and offered a place at the prestigious Savannah College of Art and Design. Young and orphaned Mare leaves the mean streets of Macon, Georgia, and embarks upon an uncanny course of artistic and personal discovery. When she meets world-acclaimed, abstract expressionist painter, Elaine de Kooning, who has her own conflicted past, the two begin an alliance, unaware that their lives are already entwined. Against the formal artistic backdrop of SCAD, Elaine de Kooning mentors the edgy, sixteen-year-old Mare, who takes an intuitive interest in iconography, and enrolls in a workshop at a North Carolina monastery, in possession of a renowned weeping icon. In a surprising twist, it is here that past and present collide, as Mare is left to confront the dangling threads of her traumatized childhood, which ultimately weave together to create the fabric that heals her life.