Stay is about a group of people caught at a crossroad, each struggling to find a place to stay, a place to call home. Abbey (Taylor Schilling) finds herself in love with Dermot (Aidan Quinn), a disgraced professor in his 50s who retreated to the rugged expanse of Connemara years ago. Their happy existence is upended when Abbey finds out that she is pregnant and Dermot is too immature to even consider the idea of fatherhood. Uncertain about her own feelings, Abbey decides to return home to Canada.