Jeliza-Rose is a young child in a very unusual situation - both her parents are junkies. When her mother dies, she embarks on a strange journey with her father, Noah, a rock'n'roll musician well past his time.

The film drifts between reality and fantasy as Jeliza-Rose escapes the vast loneliness of her new home into the fantasy world that exists in her imagination. In this world fireflies have names, bog-men awaken at dusk, and squirrels talk. The heads of four dolls, long more...