Franklin and Irene are an ageing couple living alone, and on the cusp of their 50th anniversary together. Irene played by Sissy Spacek has just had a fall that has reduced her mobility. Franklin is beginning to forget things. While they nurse both the challenges of everyday life and the trauma of the death of their son, both Irene and Franklin are holding onto a little secret. In the basement of their warehouse, lies a portal that takes them to, what looks like starry, desolate and stunningly beautiful planet in space. It's a chamber, the couple often visits without having ventured beyond the door that might take them across. Simultaneously, a story about a mother and daughter guarding a similar portal in Argentina crashes the party. Just as Irene builds the courage to venture beyond the portal she finds a mysterious man - Jade who has apparently arrived from the other side. Thus begins a game of intergalactic mystery, space spanning folklore and a plodding narrative that is a whole lot of bearings, glued to several ideas all at once..