Aislin, a sullen teenager, is awakened by a phone call that her mother, Jean, has been committed. Jean was the intake nurse in the emergency room after a meth lab blew up. Aislin is faced with the role reversal of child taking care of parent.
Brian, a young zombie, wakes up in a church and wanders around frozen, wintry town as society ignores him. Brian stumbles and falls in an alley. The police pick him up at gunpoint and drag him off to quarantine. Brian is a metaphor for AIDS patients.
Lara, a beautiful girl in her early twenties, is a cutter. The camera follows her through the day, as she goes to work and interacts with different people. At the end of the day, she comes home to stare at a framed picture of a young man. She draws a bath, gets in, draws an exacto knife down her inner thigh, and is overcome with calm.
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