At just 27 years old, Janis Joplin had been famous for just 8 years; yet, in that short time, she challenged not only the music industry but also western society itself, and in particular, an almost global perception of what it meant to be a woman at that time. And yet, there was something else that festered in Janis' heart and, ultimately, would be the emotional cancer that would bring her to that motel room where she died. One single event in her...