Ireland 1981. Nine-year-old Cáit counters the adversities of a life in poverty on the countryside with a quiet retreat into her own world She is a sensitive observer of the beauty of the small things around her. When she is sent from her overwhelmed, often emotionally cold extended family to an older, childless couple during the holidays, she experiences deep affection, perhaps for the first time ever.

九岁小女孩凯特天性内向，却偏偏生在一个过于喧嚣的贫困大家庭里， 她的生存策略，就是尽量让人忘记自己的存在。即将临盆的妈妈，将凯特暂时托付给远亲照顾。这对农场夫妻恬静寡言，但似乎能够深刻同理凯特的内心。在他们的温柔款待下，凯特开始跟着照顾农庄里的动物，并在过程中学会听从内心的声音，时而释放自我尽情奔跑，不想说话就让自己独处，渐渐绽放出生命的自在。她也在这个过程里，发现这个安静家庭里的伤心秘密。