A famous writer lives with his wife in an isolated place and pursues a stoic life for his calling. When his writing block starts to ruin his daily life, one of his fans, Karl, come to visit at one cold winter night.
Two twentysomething students, Alex and Zoe, are lovers. When Zoe's old boyfriend James returns from Europe, Zoe breaks up with Alex and returns to James. But soon Zoe finds out she's pregnant, and it's Alex's baby.
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a full-blow rebel in the hospital; her increasing violence threatens to keep her locked up for life as she fights for her voice and her freedom.