Mary wakes up and prepares for the day with her young daughter Ruth. When Mary finds Ruth making a mess in the kitchen, she scolds her. Later, Ruth tries to make a birthday card for her father, but Mary shouts that he is gone. At lunch, a social worker visits and notes that Mary is struggling financially and emotionally without her husband. That evening, Mary and Ruth leave flowers at the lifeboat house where Ruth's father used to work. Ruth puts a message in a bottle for her father and they watch it float away.