Ellen Page stars as Lu (short for Tallulah), a drifter who commits petty crimes with her boyfriend Nico (Evan Jonigkeit) in order to get by. When she wakes up one morning to find Nico gone, Tallulah follows him to New York where his mother Margo (Allison Janney) lives. Lu arrives in the city and meets Carolyn, an inattentive mother who's more concerned with drinking and meeting guys than raising her young daughter, Maddy.
Lu forms an immediate bond with the child and agrees to babysit, taking her back to her van to sleep after Carolyn passes out drunk. Carolyn awakes to find Maddy missing and, convinced that she's been abducted, calls the police. When Lu notices the police cars, she panics and runs to Margo's house with Maddy in tow, whom she says is her and Nico's child. Margo takes them in, despite dealing with her own issues . . . such as her husband leaving her for another man. Tallulah, Margo, and Maddy form a bond that they all desperately needed, only to have it threatened as the police pursuit intensifies.
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