When Dara returns home to reconnect with the husband and young daughter she left behind two years earlier, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. whom she left two years earlier. LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE tells the story of a woman's struggle to regain the life she left behind.

Bridget regresa a casa para lidiar con una madre enferma y un padre que no está dispuesto a dejar la vida que tienen juntos.