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Teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood joins boys wrestling team to reconnect with estranged father.
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Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood decides that joining the boys wrestling team is the only way back to her estranged father.
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