Taking place 2 years before the first book/movie, Katniss finds herself without hope. Her Mother and Sister have been taken ill, her food rations have run out, and she was powerless to help them. Reluctantly, she's breaks a promise she had made to herself and sold the only thing she had left. Herself.
A talented newspaperman and his new wife are seduced by the boss and his wife. Despite her intentions wife leads her mother and two younger sisters into a den of sexual predators.