Janet Roberts is an educate woman who has written and published a number of books This one is her favourite. In her present life, in Melbourne, Australia, she meets many homeless people on the main street of her own suburb and in the city and gets to know their stories. One of these is an Indigenous girl who does pavement drawings in the city but this girl proves hard to know. However, Janet learns the story of one very interesting and clever girl and this story is about her. Janet writes because she loves writing and particularly likes the homeless people she meets and whose stories impress her so much with the braveness and resilience the homeless people show.