7 year old MatÃÂas returns home from a friend’s birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor. When she recovers her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else. Through the eyes of MatÃÂas we will discover their escape in a city where everything MatÃÂas once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.