The nurse Emma arrives for her evening shift at a closed psychiatric facility. It's a day like any other. Colleagues are out sick, patients are dealing with acute problems and Emma and her colleagues must be creative to get the through the shift in the best possible way. In only twenty minutes their trust in the system will be put to a test.

Seven-year-old Solvej lives alone with her mentally ill mother in an apartment filled with canned food and dirty clothes. As her mother's mental illness worsens, it is up to Solvej to take up the fight and accept the circumstances that mother and daughter are faced with. Amidst the chaos, Solvej dreams herself away in her drawings, which come to life and carry her away from the world she has been placed in.