The film is based on a story 'Unless the Eye Catch Fire...' by the Canadian writer PK Page and describes the actions and thoughts of an elderly woman living in a quiet garden suburb during the final few months when the Earth warms up. While on one level an example of poetic science-fiction on ecological issues, the story unfolds the metaphysics of the transient human existence and deals with death as a transition dissolving borders between the human soul and universe.