Ayume is the universal woman who has been abandoned by her birth mother, victimized by racist adoptive parents, scarred by the mean girls of the world, and hurt by the love of her life...yet she triumphs. These are all sacred gifts whose lesson Ayume alchemizes into positive energy to ultimately heal and save herself. She is the quintessential phoenix who rises from the ash. Lessons in unconditional love, forgiveness, compassion, and letting go abound on Ayume's journey and set a backdrop for a story of female empowerment through the freeing of self and the power to heal generational wounds.