Afraid of what the acrid city air might be doing to their unborn child, a man and his young wife retreat to the countryside to spend a weekend on a camping break. Faced with the unbearable beauty of what the city had left of the countryside while mourning the loss of his own innocence, the man crumbles under the pressures of his impending fatherhood and submits to a violent, emotional regression in the hopes of appealing to the maternity of nature.