An eight-year-old girl lives with her mother Belle, her father Joe, and her older brother Ricky in Northern Ireland. Her mother, a seamstress, is making a wedding gown for a young client, but the father disapproves, afraid that the wedding won't go through and that the bride's money will be wasted. Belle, however, knows they need the money, so she ignores her husband's advice.

The family's house is a popular spot for graffiti, which Belle spends considerable time covering with white paint. When the bride arrives for her fitting, she sees the empty paint cans and tells Belle about her latest projects renovating her house. The young woman explains that she sees a fortune teller and that she won two thousand pounds from the numbers she gave her for the pools. The fortune teller, Fortuna, is also the reason she is planning a wedding. Fortuna predicted that the young woman will marry soon, so she went ahead and booked the venue and, of course, had the dress made. The fitting goes well, and the woman pays Belle for the dress and invites her to the wedding, but Belle tells her she is too busy to attend.

Joe is a talented storyteller and tells his daughter a story one night as she falls asleep. She is not yet asleep, however, when she overhears her parents talking about her father's unemployment. Though her father had gone to an interview earlier that day, he is doubtful that he will be offered a job. In the following days, the family takes the train around Ireland to explore, but they return home to a new work of graffiti painted outside their home.