Hannah, a recluse who wears a hearing aid, is forced by her employer to take a vacation. On holiday, she finds a job on an oil rig caring for Josef, a burn victim who has temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef, and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.