When Dara returns home to reconnect with the husband and young daughter she left behind two years earlier, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. whom she left two years earlier. LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE tells the story of a woman's struggle to regain the life she left behind.

Uma mulher que volta para casa para ajudar a mãe, que sofre da doença de Alzheimer, enquanto também luta com seu próprio passado.