In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a tiny teenage Jewish singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scores a controversial hit single called "Society’s Child," about an interracial love relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin-only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, “At Seventeen,” a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying.