Everything about Jolene’s life is intense. She lives off of chaos and adrenaline. At night she works as a barmaid in a strip club. She got her firstborn at sixteen, and four years later the second one followed. She loves AJAX. As a child from a recently recovered drug-addict mother and an addicted father she never knew, she is never scared and she never takes a step back.

Her mother marries the heavily addicted Keith Bakker, but after a while he too disappears from Jolene’s life. Longing for a loving father-figure, Jolene involves herself in one destructive relationship after another.