Joleen Reedy (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron) is a disillusioned single mother who abandons her 12-year-old daughter (AnnaSophia Robb of BRIDGE TO TEREBITHIA) to the care of her shiftless younger brother James (Nick Stahl of IN THE BEDROOM and CARNIVÀLE). In hiding from past plagued by dark secrets, can family prove to be the wake-up call to the rest of your life?