Libby, Lacey and Carrie try to find shade on a hot summer day while waiting for a friend. Libby and Lacey have few friends in the community and spend most of their free time with each other and with their mother. At times this lack of community isolates the girls. They have not spent much time in wealthier households with working parents who do not share the same struggle as there mother thus there understanding of the community at large is skewed.