After being raped by her best friend's husband, and then watching her friend take his side, Carly spirals into emotional ruin. But when a miscarriage forces her to confront her grief, she must choose: destroy everything or find a reason to keep going.

SYNOPSIS:

The story follows Carly, a sharp-tongued and adventurous young woman who lives in an old caravan in the Welsh countryside with her emotionally absent religious mother and sick grandmother.

Carly has one anchor: Ally. Her lifelong best friend; she craves marriage, financial support, and a life in tradition. They are nothing alike, but their bond is undeniable, undefined, between platonic and much more. Ally marries and has a baby boy. They become their own little family.

In the first act, Carly and Ally move through unexplained affection, dancing, bathing together in the woods. Ally introduces Carly to her older, well-off, conservative partner. The dinner is tense. Something isn't right with the man, but Carly would never drive a wedge between her and Ally. So the three form an unlikely relationship, as Carly ignores the signs. Carly makes money as a "social companion" to rich, older men, hoping to make enough money to escape home. Her mother and Carly clash, two strong, stubborn women constantly trying to get their way.

Then, without warning, Ally's husband rapes Carly while she waits for Ally alone. A moment not marked by sexuality or physicality, but by pain and fear. Carly hallucinates her mother watching. She begs for help, but help never comes.

Carly doesn't report her assault. Instead, she tells her mother, who responds with violence and profanity. Fear manifested in anger and scrutiny. Carly begins to dissociate. She isolates, spirals. She washes herself obsessively, trying to remove the marks the man left behind. She changes her appearance and distances herself from the people around her. She has no one; her grandmother is too old, Ally must not know about her husband's doing, and her mother is angry.

Her world breaks further when she finds out she is pregnant. She dyes her hair, destroys all her makeup, and performs increasingly erotic rituals for old male clients in hotel rooms. Each time, they're more disconnected and sensual. In one solo sequence, she touches herself, a desperate attempt to gain control over her lost body. But soon, she dissociates into a kicking and crying frenzy, reimagining her trauma in her body.

Carly has had it. She tells Ally, but Ally doesn't believe her. Worse, she sides with her husband. It's easier for her to side with her calm and protected life, even if it is alongside a rapist. So she refuses what is right in front of her, followed by gaslighting (both to herself and Carly). However, it is easily the hardest decision Ally has ever made, and she regrets it later.

Amid Carly's breakdowns, she loses the baby. She breaks down, not in sadness but rage, at herself, the world, her body.

With nowhere left to turn, Carly reaches for spiritual and religious meaning. She visits her grandmother's shrine and then speaks to a local priest. But her conversations are combative. She doesn't believe in God, justice, or suffering. The priest suggests 10 days before making irreversible decisions.

Carly marks the 10th day on her calendar, and the countdown begins.

Her grandmother's health, already weak, continues to decline. At her bedside, they discuss womanhood, survival, and the pain passed down generationally. Her grandmother revealed the fighting spirit she once had when she acknowledged her role in the women's liberation. But Carly resents the world for its slow progress.

Afterwards, Carly visits more clients. It becomes a ritual where her body is present but her mind is not.

Her grandmother passed away next, leaving Carly entirely alone. Ally and Carly no longer call, text, or speak. The priest no longer shows. The only thing Carly can do is count down the days until her "deadline".

On Day 10, Carly boards a car with one of her regular clients and disappears into the vantage point. Removing all responsibility and choosing an easy life, but not her own. But at the very least, happy, and away from a town that has only traumatised her, that's one version of Carly's ending. But in truth, two exist, resembling her split mind and ultimate decision. A decision ultimately for the audience to consider ("what do I think happened? why? what does that say about me?").

The other ending exists in the bathroom simultaneously with the first. Carly stands alone on top of a chair, a rope above her. At first, her legs struggle, but then they stop.

We never see what happens or which version is real. The ending reinforces the film's emotional idea: "Which reality gets to be believed, and why?"