A widowed mortician, struggling with agoraphobia, is given a birthday gift from her mother and daughter as a joke.
Molly Harrison is not exactly a “regular” mom. And that’s not just because she’s a mortician. She hasn’t left the house since her husband Peter died three years ago of a freak accident on her birthday. Now on Molly’s fortieth birthday, her daughter Sam and mother Ivy present her with tickets to Moscow hoping a trip just might finally be the thing to help get her out of the house. But the tickets come with a catch — a gag gift of a life-sized doll named Pedro.
Pedro quickly goes from funny to fantastical, confounding Molly’s attempts to go outside, straining her ties with her family, and threatening her budding relationship with a kind but lonely documentary filmmaker named Joe.