It is an American TV film adapted from Liz Murray’s autobiography, Breaking Night. Born in an extremely dysfunctional family with a schizophrenic mother and drug-addicted father, our protagonist Liz is required to remove from the home and put into the care system, as the unconscientious father cannot take care of her. (1)She became homeless just after she turned 16, when her mother died of AIDS, and her father moved to a homeless shelter. She gets a slap in the face by her mother's death: Liz's life turned around when she began attending the Humanities Preparatory Academy in Chelsea, Manhattan and amazingly completed in two years, rather than the usual four. She becomes a star student and earns a scholarship to Harvard University through an
