Barbara O'Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident.

Deciding that her chances are better on the streets, Grace journeys out into the unknown travelling down a long, hard road, discovering the good and the bad of human nature along the way.

Martha Horgan, a naive woman with an intellectual impairment who lives with her aunt Frances in a small town, is known for always telling the truth. She works at a dry cleaner, where her compulsive truth-telling leads her to repor...