This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, an American divorc̩e, and her daughter, Flor. Uprooted and unmoored, mother and daughter lead an itinerant existence РVenice, Canne and Paris as a backdrop Рglamorous and dependent. When Flor attempts to flee this untidy life and the oppressive rule of her eccentric mother, she instead succumbs to a gradual decline into insanity.