A jealous mother, a community theatre and an act of passive aggression thirty years in the making drive this coming of age drama about passion and loneliness. When Georgia accepts the lead role in her town's summer play, her social life blossoms while her home life wilts due to her erratic and increasingly resentful mother. Down the road, a 12-year-old befriends a reclusive woman with a secret kept for decades.

A young woman volunteering in a malaria plagued region of Kenya believes she is being terrorized by the witches known in local folklore as Nightrunners.