At the start of his school holidays,Danny Delaney is lookong forward to a trouble-free summwe. But he knows that somrthing terrible had happened when his mother returns home one afternoon with two policemen. Ther has been an accident. Mrs Delaney has hot a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Danny's mother closes herself off,full of guilt. Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their broken family