Stay

STAY is about a group of people caught at a crossroads, each struggling to find a place to stay, a place to call home.

Abbey (Taylor Schilling of Orange is the New Black) falls in love with Dermot (Aidan Quinn), a disgraced professor in his 50's who's retreated to the rugged expanse of Connemara years ago. Their happy existence is upended when Abbey becomes pregnant and Dermot is too immature to consider the idea of fatherhood. Uncertain about her own feelings, Abbey decides to return home to Canada.

Initially relieved, Dermot reclaims his tiny cottage by the sea, once again master of his own domain, albeit a small one. In an attempt to keep the outside world at bay, he begins an archaeological dig which renders unexpected results, including a budding friendship with Sean, a lost boy from the neighboring village, and Michael, a former colleague who knows too much about the past for Dermot's liking.

In the end, however, it is his encounter with Deirdre, a pregnant big city girl who returns to the village because of her mother's sudden death that opens Dermot's heart to the idea of nurturing his own child. Back with her dysfunctional father Frank, Abbey realizes that Montreal no longer feels like home. Repeating an age-old pattern, she turns to self-destructive behavior but in the end, it is a painful discovery about her own mother that sets her free.