John Gerard Healy

Avi Brickman is a middle-aged man still broken from the tragic death of his eight-year-old daughter five years earlier. When he is suddenly fired from his job, a thin threaded lifeline to his shattered existence, he decides to kill himself in the very home where the accident occurred. However, when he arrives at the isolated house in the woods, he finds a woman and her young daughter taking shelter there. During one long night, in his confused state of mind, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past as he confronts his guilt and pain to a cathartic and unexpected conclusion.

떠돌이 생활을 하지만 나름 행복했던 소녀 프란시스의 가족에게, 임신한 어머니가 사망하고 아버지는 감옥에 갇히는 불운이 찾아온다. 무하마드 알리 같은 유명한 복서가 되고 싶은 프란시스. 악조건 속에서도 열심히 살아가려고 하지만 출소한 아버지는 그녀에게 냉랭하기만 하다.