Morvern Callar is a 21-year-old supermarket worker from a small port town in the West of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something that you get on with, as best you can and with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor. Extraordinarily, she doesn't tell anyone and this and her subsequent choices propel her on a journey that transforms her life.