The heat keeps rising, forcing people to live their lives at night. They grow distant, in curious kinds of solitude. This is where Jonah provides comfort for strangers. As it gets increasingly harder to get close to one another, his commitment fills a void. Jonah has no trouble being someone else, acting out the lives of others. But when he finds himself in the role of the father for 9-year-old Nika, his life starts to unravel. As she slowly opens up to him, she stirs something in Jonah that he seems to have lost a long time ago.