In the wake of a devastating loss, a young girl goes on a disturbing downward spiral, employing the medical knowledge her mother impressed upon her to seek revenge and combat her loneliness.
In their isolated farmhouse, a mother who used to be a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter Francisca to understand anatomy and to be okay with the dead. When a visitor comes, he ruins the perfection of Francisca’s family life, however also awakening unusual curiosities.