Marina is a young mother struggling under the overwhelming, exhausting weight of postpartum depression and maternal anxiety while caring for her relentlessly crying infant son, Marco. Seeking isolation and a change of scenery, she rents an apartment for the summer in a remote, mountainous village in the Italian Alps. Her landlord is Manfred, a rough, intensely silent mountain guide who has been abandoned by his own wife and harbors deep-seated anger toward women and family structures. Their forced proximity starts with mutual distrust, but everything changes one afternoon when an domestic accident leaves the baby injured under Marina's care. Manfred steps in to help, and as they are trapped together in the secluded mountain landscape, their shared inner trauma leads to an intense, deeply complex extramarital connection and forbidden emotional intimacy, changing both of their lives forever.