Ten years after her father Gerald abandoned her with nothing, Isla arrives at her grandmother Margaret’s will reading to find him already there, confidently discussing turning the family’s $1.36 million mountain lodge into a shared business venture as though the past decade of neglect never happened. As attorney Mr. Halloway prepares to read the disposition of the lodge, Isla watches her father and sister Delia exchange satisfied glances, clearly expecting to claim their share of an inheritance they did nothing to deserve.

Just as Mr. Halloway lifts the final page and glances toward Isla, the room braces for whatever clause is about to be read aloud, one that promises to upend every assumption her father walked in with.