Max, recently separated, has just moved into the rundown Shady Pines motel at the edge of a national park. Outside, a pack of wolves is wondering if she wants to hang out. Inside, everything she used to know is becoming something other-than. A toothbrush becomes a handful of chives; a bottle of shampoo is an owl that refuses to leave the shower; and a stack of papers that demand a signature stubbornly remain just that.