Susan Crusoe is a 60-year-old high school English teacher who's convinced she repressed a trauma from her early adult years that has negatively impacted the rest of her life--she's depressed, suicidal, has a failing marriage, and a troubled son. She's convinced her drug-addict son Danny hold the key to her remembering the trauma, but she kicked him out of their home a year ago and he's gone off the grid. She receives a tip he may be living in a homeless encampment and goes there to find no Danny but word that he's lived there twice last summer. Since they have an open-door policy, she chooses to remain and wait for her son. The conservative woman who thinks homeless people are lazy and live off the government teat begins to rethink her opinions by living as a homeless person. Twin tragedies occur that force her to remember her trauma after Danny's return does not help.