margaret is a single mother in her early thirties, living in suburban Toronto. Having “fallen” from her middle class upbringing, she supports herself working in a laundromat and her world seems largely circumscribed by partying and bringing home a series of mate. One such man is Jim, ten years her junior. Quiet and unexperienced, but with an undercurrent of anger and violence, Jim is bowled over by her voracious sexuality and soon moves in with her. With the possibility of a stable relationship, Margaret wants her troubled thirteen-year-old daughter Lisa to move back with the two of them. For a while, it seems as though things might work out, but the tensions between different sides of the triangle soon begin to escalate. It becomes clear that there is only one way out of this impossible situation.