A tragic accident has surprising effects on the fragments of a family when it must accept a recuperating patient into the home. After We drives his taxi into a river, the passenger, Sudan, moves in with We's widow Fanny and their son Kawa. Sudan has an unforeseen positive influence on both of them, seeing Kawa through a rite of passage and inspiring enogh confidence in Fanny to allow her to taste new romance. Years later, however, Kawa and Sudan reunite, and the hideous truth of his father's death finally emerges.