A young couple walks through the wilderness. She is free and he follows, somewhat reluctantly. After spending a stormy night under a rock shelter, they meet a man from her past. Together they come upon a road.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.