At the beginning of the summer, Bridget got a job as a babysitter for six-year-old Francis in an affluent suburb of Chicago. But at the same time, she gave up her right to be a mother and went into surgery. Because she had no time to recover, she had many conflicts with Francis on the one hand and was troubled by the increasingly strained relationship with Francis's mother on the other. With the passage of time, they began to establish friendships and derive joy from them.