Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed by the story about a young single mother whose husband was killed and the killer got away with it, she befriends the young widow who would rather forget the whole event and go on with her life.
Jenna was just a newborn when her mother left her to die in a frozen forest. 17 years later Jenna tracks her mother down and invades her new family disguised as a babysitter.