A teenager girl works with her parents as groundkeepers and housekeepers for a cabin. Currently, she and her father tend to the cabin, because her mother is away working for an old man. A new family rents to the cabin every week, and this week's family has a mother, father, and two daughters. The girl, intrigued, observes the family's routines, antics, and characters at the periphery. The mother of the family is a writer and stays back with a notebook while the rest of the family goes to the beach, so the girl observes her process of observation. The girl's parents are immigrants. When her mother had been pregnant, her father had been out late one night working in a stall selling flowers. He was brutally beaten and told to go back to his country, and as a result, he is embarrassed to be around people. It is hard for him to speak. This is why they live in the country, but his wife complains that she does not like it way out there in the middle of nowhere.