A woman in ’s Hartford neighborhood who goes door-to-door petitioning for stop signs to be put up in the area. Marsha has two sons, and , and she wants them to be safe. Soon after, Kevin dies of a drug overdose, and Kyle dies the same way five years later. Marsha’s sons represent the pervasiveness of drug use and addiction in 21st-century American society, and the character of Marsha underscores the difficulty parents have in keeping their children safe from such a widespread epidemic.