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Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking care of her father, and spending afternoons in her bedroom with a local mechanic, life is passing Shell by with every passing truck that rattles her walls. One day a salesman stops to re-fuel and offers Shell a taste of the outside world that takes her closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape.

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"Pete" (Joseph Mawle) owns a remote petrol station in the Scottish Highlands which he runs with his teenage daughter "Shell" (Chloe Pirrie). Now some may find their location beautiful, but living there with the wind constantly howling and the only conversation coming from the occassional truck driver, regular "Hugh" (Michael Smiley) and mechanic "Adam" (Iain De Caestecker) isn't exactly rewarding for either of them. It's quite clear that he has emotional issues of his own, and that both "Hugh" and "Adam" would like to take their friendship with "Shell" a little farther - but she offers them little by way of engagement and seems as immersed in her own isolation as their home is by their bleak…

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