Joe (Nick Robinson)'s mother left him when he was very young, and now he and his father Frank (Nick Offerman) live a life of dependence. Frank is a very arbitrary man, and he wants to control every aspect of Joe's life all the time. Patrick (Gabriel Basso) is in the same situation as Joe, and he is suffocated by the excessive attention of his family. One night, Joe and his friend Biakio (Moises Arias) accidentally discovered an uninhabited forest. Together with Patrick, the children who felt the call of nature decided to run away from home and build their utopia in this forest. This unbreakable friendship has undergone subtle changes after a girl named Kelly (Erin Moriarty) intervened.