Hilly hides in her room, tired of life. and just wanting to be left alone. She’s pinned in the prison cell of her life when along comes Fred… thirty years older, irascible in the extreme, a fellow recovering alcoholic, determined to be her friend. She feels the bonding rush and her life starting to awaken, but when his health takes a turn for the worst and his brother shows up to run interference, she must learn fast how to be a real friend, and how what separates us is, in fact, what’s connecting us.