An isolated island cloaked in bush contaminated by a lethal virus. One small chunk of it, stripped of plant life, is where Ilda (14) lives with her parents. Abel toils on his fish farm, Marilyn suffers from depression; neither notice their daughter is growing up. Restless and lonely, Ilda’s wants to discover the world. But her fear of the virus is like a prison wall, she can go nowhere. One day she discovers a boy hiding in the bush. Filthy and wild, he
gives her an anti-dote guaranteeing protection from the virus and persuades her to follow him into the undergrowth. Ilda embarks on a voyage through the thick, dark, forbidden foliage to discover innocent sensuality and friendship. In a burnt ruin they make plans to run away together.
In her emotionally sterile home environment, Ilda starts to notice changes: her mother refusing to take her pills, her father’s increasing violence.
One night she sees her mother enter the burnt ruin. Hidden, she watches as she lays immaculate white sheets on two tiny cot beds blackened by fire. Ilda realizes there was once another life on the island, another man...