An emotionally abused teenage boy fights against insanity after his mother's violent suicide in a car crash when he was nine-years-old.
Coog and Doc work in a remote area of the Australian outback maintaining dingo fences. As the silence and loneliness drive them slowly insane, they discover that silence can be deafening.
Following the death of her mother, eight-year-old Sara forms a surrogate parent relationship with a tree in her garden.