Ama and Grace and they only have each other and that's all they need. They live confined to their Glasgow apartment. Only Grace goes out to work as a cleaner, forbidding Ama to go out.

Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. But Ama's thirst for life and her need to grow and develop, challenges the rules of their insular world and gradually forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.