Its meaning is planted in religious imagery. In Roman Catholic theology of the Middle Ages, Limbo was a place of forgotten souls. His measured tale focuses on three people emotionally lost in life and physically stranded in Alaska. The barren but beautiful landscape reflects something of the incongruity of life. This is a place to where people escape and from which people flee.
Suicide rates are high, depression and dislocation are higher.
A survivor of a string of broken relationships, Donna is an eternal optimist. A loving but emotionally clumsy mother she frustrates her daughter at nearly every turn. Noelle bears the obvious scars of a fatherless child. She resents being dragged after Donna whenever someone new comes into her life. It is a trip that will alter their lives.