A grieving American filmmaker (Dale Dickey) and her Irish assistant (Judith Roddy) tour the west of Ireland, researching a film about Granuaile, the legendary 16th-century rebel and 'pirate queen'.
Clare is a mother and wife and is not very appreciateed at home so she decides to go up to the treehouse and stays there for 32 days to try and break the world record her family soon realise they really need her.
