Fanny, a 17-year-old high school senior, loses both parents in a car accident. Granted permission to live independently in the family home, located on the outskirts of a small Norwegian town, the days pass by as she performs routine daily chores: going to school, maintaining the house, chopping and stacking wood, and keeping the weeds at bay. As Fanny grieves and attempts to come to terms with the sad circumstances of her life, a fairy tale-like world full of new possibilities begins to emerge around her.