Living in her rundown van while travelling around America, homeless teenager Tallulah (Ellen Page) and her boyfriend Nico (Evan Jonigkeit) survive the streets by stealing credit cards. When Nico decides it is time to go home to his mother, Tallulah expresses her dismay and argues with Nico about how she will not change her lifestyle. Tallulah is devastated to discover the next morning that Nico has left without saying goodbye. Desperate to be with him again, Tallulah drives to New York City, where Nico's mother Margo (Allison Janney) lives, and finds her at her apartment. After informing Tallulah that she has not seen Nico in two years, Margo tells Lu to leave. With nowhere else to go, Tallulah steals from guests at a nearby hotel, only for an eccentric and intoxicated mother, Carolyn (Tammy Blanchard), to mistake Tallulah as housekeeping staff. To Lu's confusion, Carolyn lets her child wander around naked and play with dangerous objects and admits that she is not invested in being a mother. Carolyn leaves her toddler, Maddy (Evangeline Ellis and Liliana Ellis), in Tallulah's care, while she goes on a date with a man who is not her husband. Tallulah bonds with the young Maddy, bathing her and playing games before a devastated Carolyn arrives back at the hotel, distraught that the man did not want her...
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