Though the hills of Kentucky resemble her native Scotland, Afton Burns could not be farther from home. After her mother dies, Afton decides to join her father on his movie set -- despite the fact that this invitation is Kyle Patton's first fatherly gesture since he left home fifteen years before. In debt and deeply unhappy, he is making the film that will determine the rest of hits career. Afton volunteers to help and finds herself in an alien world...