Incidents - Way home

12 years old: She is walking from school to get home to her dad's house. 18 years old: She is walking home from a bar in the evening. 24 years old: She is walking with her newborn baby in the stroller on her way home - a situation that should be safer than anything. Each time men come in her way, making her way home threatening and difficult. She is a survivor, she can handle it - but why does she have to?