Plot

Three teenagers form an unlikely bond on a road trip to nowhere in a wide open field behind a women's shelter. In a broken-down 1970's VW bus, upper-class-sixteen-year-old Josephine Nash, wise-beyond-her-years Kendra and urban-poet Cal invent their own private Utopia. It shatters when Cal's mother is killed and he's forced out of the Shelter. Jo's anger detonates, throwing her onto a collision course with everyone around her. "Sheltered Life" explores themes of morality, vengeance, and justice, through these three friends, an ensemble cast of shelter women, and the story of a daughter who loves her mother enough to destroy the world.—Cineman

For fear of her mother's safety, Josephine Nash makes a call to 911 to protect her mother from any further abuse. The two of them are taken to a woman's only shelter, where they truly learn what it's like to live with nothing. It is an adjustment Josephine welcomes; a nice change from her private school, exclusive club membership life. But in the end, the shelter offers only a temporary solution. Something more drastic must be done.