My Side is a truly heroic tale of one woman's struggle to make it against adverse conditions. Her tale begins with an empty and depressing childhood living in a broken home with her father and stepmother. She tells of her struggle against child abuse at her stepmother's hands and of the hardships that she, her sister and her brother go through.  Through physical, emotional, mental, and sexual abuse.   As time wears on she falls in a love with a seemingly wonderful man but when she becomes pregnant at the tender age of 16, she soon learns that not everything in the world is covered with roses. Even the most beautiful rose still has its thorns. As she ages, she struggles with lies and rumors that are said against her and her children. She deals her husband's family and tries to set things right. She tries to forgive the past but somehow it continues to haunt her, refusing to let her go. Through trials and tribulations Lina has survived all odds to become an extraordinary woman with a harrowing story to tell.