Still working through the grief of losing her only child, Thelma, a young Blackfeet woman in Browning, MT, is taken advantage of by friends who use her as de facto child care while they continue to live the freewheeling lifestyles they had before becoming parents. Thelma has daily conversations with her 'Creator' about loss, motherhood, and life. When the Creator pays her a visit and propositions her, Thelma has to choose between bearing the Creator's 'love child', and staying true to herself and her ideas of family and responsibility.