He holds the lifeline. Will she take it... Sixteen-year-old Mallory, accustomed to the finer things in life, finds herself adrift in an Emergency Shelter with a motley group of refugees: Clarence, the born-again Christian, Allison, the unwed pregnant girl, Justin, the sports jock and an unrelenting Shelter Worker named Barney. As the storm rages, Mallory must choose Clarence's lifeline or flee the security of the shelter.