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Writer/director Rebecca Daly draws on her memories of living in a small community in which a young girl vanished without a trace to tell the story of Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), an eccentric young factory worker who grows increasingly sleepless and unstable while investigating a bizarre murder. When Arlene was just a young girl, her mother suffered a sudden and tragic death. Her deep mourning manifested in disturbing bouts of sleepwalking, Arlene grew increasingly reclusive into young adulthood. One morning, Arlene's fate takes a rather unusual turn when she awakens in the woods, right next to the corpse of a pretty young murder victim. In the days and weeks that follow, sleep eludes Arlene as she gradually begins to ingratiate herself with the victim's grieving family, as well as her former boyfriend Killen (Sam Keeley} - whose notoriously short fuse has made him a prime suspect in the murder.