Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has died by suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use both to reinvent her life, leaving Scotland for Ibiza where she travels with her closest friend. The journey prompts a series of internal and external transformations for Morvern – ones which bring to light her experiences of grief, memory, freedom, and desire.