After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
A woman who lives forever is reluctantly connected to a clandestine group that she calls her family. Struggling with this alienating condition, she now faces the decisive days of her endless life.
