An amazing record of the genetic nature of trauma, Jacinta follows the lives of three generations of women struggling to locate security in the middle of years of dependence. Jacinta leaves the Maine Correctional Center, leaving her mommy behind to finish her own sentence, and tries to reconstruct her partnership with Caylynn, her preternaturally wise pre-teen little girl that longs for time and focus from the mom she adores. However as the stress of forming a life in a world she has actually barely known sober verifies increasingly tough, she brings the customer into her emotional, everyday battle to find tranquility with herself and earn the trust fund of her family.