Recently widowed Dawn experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s mental condition and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but Dawn’s paranoia spirals out of control. Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices as she struggles to keep her mother a float. A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.