When his wife Mary dies in childbirth, it’s up to Randy, a truck driver in his fifties, to raise his daughter Mary. As the little girl grows up, he struggles to let her lead her own life. When Mary meets and moves in with a dangerously volatile man, the ties that bind parent to child are tested again. Monica Kidd depicts this father-daughter relationship with poetic power, probing her characters' inner lives and the grim forces they face.