A disheveled housewife, Thyme, checks into a ramshackle, roadside motel upsetting the sleepy equilibrium of its guests. In the next room, an imaginative pubescent Gussie holes up with her 'Uncle Rex.' When Gussie witnesses Thyme burying a bloody bag in the woods one night, her imagination is set ablaze. Did Thyme murder her newborn baby? Leaving Gussie is a universal story about human spirit and one woman's attempt to overcome the perils of postpartum depression. Ironically it is the affection of a broken child that leads Thyme to face her demons and ultimately recover her maternal instincts.