She's a skinny orphan. She's never been able to hear too well. And she can't speak too well, either. The only person who seems to care for her one of the nuns at the orphanage gets taken away from Alice in a freak accident. And then one day somebody calls Alice by the wrong name...
Twelve-year-old Alice, an orphan who has never been adopted because of her physical handicap and difficult personality, is shocked to discover she has an identical twin sister living nearby.