In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss. Since her mother\"s death, Lily has withdrawn from the world, trapped between grief and anger. She has to break out of this damaging cycle - but how? Upstairs, Siobhan is consumed by her affair with a married man....

You\"re strange and wrong. You\"ve known it from the beginning. This is the voice that rings in your ears. Because you never say the right thing. You\"re a disappointment to everyone. You\"re a far cry from beautiful - and your thoughts are ugly too. You seem bound to fail, bound to break....

In the intimate context of domestic service, power relations take on one of their most personalized forms....