Roxy is the unwanted child of Isadora Reid, a beautiful, intelligent woman beset with manic depression. Isadora’s neuroses lead to ever more risky behavior, exacerbated by drug addiction. Roxy clings to her mother’s rare displays of affection to tide her over long periods of gruesome abuse and style="text-align:justify;">Still a child, she falls into the orbit of Nick Dredd, a rising gang leader and drug dealer while still a child. He becomes her mentor, lovingly shaping her in his own image. However, Roxy has ideas of her own, a deep-seated desire to escape from the wretched world of her birth to one of peace and safety “where people use their brains, not their style="text-align:justify;">Opportunity comes in the form of James Hancock, a geeky slightly naïve banker. A wealthy man with all the outward signs of success, he still yearns for romance. Roxy enters his life like a bolt of lightning, showing him in an instant everything he has been missing. She knows exactly what she wants from him, but schemes rarely work as planned when human emotions are style="text-align:justify;">The Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell in love with his statue of a beautiful girl, encapsulates the creator’s love for his or her creation. In the myth, Aphrodite brought the statue to life as Galatea who dutifully returned Pygmalion’s love and the couple lived happily ever after. But would a real-life Galatea have robotically loved her creator? And if she did, wouldn’t Pygmalion soon tire of her?