Cardboard Skies follows Ivy, a young woman fighting to keep her little brother safe after eviction leaves them living out of their car. When a run-in with their drug-addicted mother threatens to unravel the fragile life Ivy's been holding together, she's forced to make an impossible choice between family and survival.

After a body is recovered in the New Mexican desert, Detective Rita Naranjo must confront the traumas of her past love.