Eight year old Amy (Alana de Roma) can’t hear or speak; she’s been like this for three years, since her rock star dad, Will, was electrocuted in front of her eyes in a horrific on-stage accident during a storm-drenched concert. Her mother Tanya (Rachel Griffiths) is hassled by well-meaning welfare officers, who nevertheless prompt her to disappear from her father’s remote, country cottage, for the anonymity of the big city. Here, in a grotty inner city street peopled with an odd assortment of neighbours, Tanya and Amy try to find a new life. Every doctor and every specialist has declared Amy physically perfect, yet Amy remains silent. . . until one of the neighbours, guitar-playing songwriter Robert (Ben Mendelsohn) discovers that there is indeed a way to communicate with Amy. Eventually, Amy’s terrible trauma is unearthed, thanks to the power of music.