While on a high school camping trip, 16-year-old Penelope feels called to abandon her family and friends to explore a new life in the wild unknown.

Penelope makes it through her first night in the forest and spends a day acquiring new wilderness skills through exhausting trial and error.

Just as she's starting to gain control of her environment, Penelope confronts a new challenge when an uninvited guest crashes her campsite.

Headed out for supplies, Penelope encounters a forest denizen who teaches her about the spiritual connections found within nature and within people.

A storm of rain and raw emotions leaves Penelope fighting to retain a sense of purpose and the resolve needed to forge her own place in the woods.

Meeting a group of teenagers on their own backpacking journey interrupts Penelope's plans and complicates her determination to go it alone.