Journalist Meredith Redmond is a battered Canadian woman who flees Canada to escape her abusive husband, Robert. She settles in Seattle, but her now-remarried ex-husband eventually finds her. To protect her two children, she must choose between killing him herself, hiring someone to kill him, or disappearing with her children and assuming new identities. Based on a true story.

Clara, a young woman increasingly overwhelmed by modern society and constantly bombarded with stimuli, finds herself in a deep state of apathy. When a tragic event triggers a rupture in her perception of reality, her growing indifference to the world around her is laid bare.