The young Rupert Turnbull is excellent as Isaac

The young Rupert Turnbull is excellent as Isaac, a boy who suffers the unimaginable loss of his father, James (Charles Aitken), only a short time after losing his mother. Now orphaned, he’s essentially stranded at home deep in the countryside with a stepmother named Laura (Julia Brown), who makes it clear that she never planned on being a single mother. She fell in love with a man and accepted her role as a stepmom, but now everything has changed, and she’s not sure if she even wants to be Isaac’s legal guardian, considering turning him over to the state and life in foster homes. She drinks to numb the pain and turns to a divorced friend named Robert (Nathaniel Martello-White) for comfort.