Helen is a London housewife barely coping with her two kids and their grandfather while husband, John, is away on an aid mission in Eastern Europe. He has been gone many months and Helen is desperately anxious that he should come home. John senses this and begins the perilous journey home, while Helen goes about her daily routine. Taking the kids to school one morning, she is killed in a car accident.

Many miles away, John is unaware of his wife's fate, as Helen herself is unaware that she is dead. She is seen arising from the pavement, walking away as if the accident had never happened and returning home, where her spirit-self re-imagines and reassesses her domestic life as John negotiates his way by car, truck, horse drawn wagon and foot across a brutal landscape of  thuggish soldiers and displaced villagers.

The kids and their grandfather must come to terms with Helen's death; John must travel across a war-torn land as he tries to reach home; and Helen must stand helplessly observing her own existence as it comes back to haunt her.