The Woman Subsequent Door introduces Meg and Susan to an surroundings with no actual grownup supervision. Their aunt permits her boys and their pals to do most something they need, even giving them beer and permitting them to smoke cigarettes.
Ruth is merciless to Meg and continually clothes her down in entrance of her cousins and their pals. When Ralphie tries to pressure himself on his cousin, Meg strikes him in self-defense.
An enraged Ruth takes her anger out on Meg, nonetheless, as a substitute of specializing in her attacker. She beats Susan and makes Meg watch as punishment, main Meg to go to the police to file a report for abuse.