Why Deny Me is a heartfelt story about Abby Brenner who faces impossible struggles. She was a mother at 15. She has been on welfare, lived in a run down house, while raising two sons, Peter and Alex. Peter is the son of a white man that loves money more than his son. Alex was by a black man, who has no desire to be a part of his son's life. Abby struggles to keep sanity in her life as well as her sons'. While being faced with betrayal, poverty, and heartbreaks, she must keep going because her sons are everything to her. But what happens to her when she feels as though she can not continue in such a direction. This story will have you in tears as you relate to each character and it will keep you curious of what happens when a family is divided by color?