Lucy was a child during the 2020 pandemic, living with her grandmother and watching the chimney swifts swoop into their tiny homes. Hester was born on the day of the Chernobyl explosion; years later, she visits the site to film the feral dogs surviving in the exclusion zone, and the doctors working to care for them. She will smuggle a pup back home with her, finding that keeping herself alive means keeping well this tiny charge. Through horrific heat waves and uprisings, both women live through the wreckage of systems and bodies that climate change brings. Until one day they find each other, and find that where there are wolves, there is hope for another day.