It tells the story from the gentle chaos of a warm family kitchen where the weight of motherhood once consumed the main character Elsie, to the cold stark present where memory no longer holds. Haunted by the relentless ticking of a clock and the ghost of a ringing phone, Elsie relives a life of love, duty and loss of self as reality fractures. Elsie is caught in the haunting beauty of a life she once longed to escape but now cannot quite let go of.