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The child of a compulsive hoarder reveals the difficult challenges she endured throughout her youth, describing her witness to the disorder's progression before her mother's diagnosis with cancer prompted a radical cleaning and a coming-to-terms with the psychology of hoarding behaviors.

Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate herself and keep her family's problems secret.