Chicago, the fight or flight mentality is focused on survival, a crew of girlfriends lost in trauma and grief from their past creates a robbery ring. However, things go bad when some high-profile politicians are brutally murdered, and the ladies find themselves the primary suspects.

When the world was falling apart, they came together. In the first dark hours of September 12th, 2001, five college freshmen stay up all night in a dorm room confronting the promises of youth that have been severed by national tragedy.

Ryoko throws a tea party for her friends. Flashbacks reveal the pasts of Ryoko's various guests.

A film diary reflecting on sentimentality, after a drunken night in the city, which accelerates to an ambiguous end. 　　The urban landscape juxtaposed with fluid abstract image-gestures and uncanny depictions of the ocean, imagines an emotional presence. Where flatness of the horizon allows the sky to feel enlarged and powerful. 　　Moments in the film move between each other like water, looking towards the past, and questioning the future, capturing places where excess of nostalgic emotions might have once been, might still be there, or may be waiting to appear.