"Running in Place" is a story of a child overcoming the hardest of beginnings in life: parents separated, separation from one's mother by social services, parents lost to drug abuse and mental illness. Now grown up, MARIO returns with a close-friend to the deserted and dilapidated home of his childhood to explore and overcome these ghosts of his past, so that he can stop "running in place"-as his parents had done-and move on in a positive way into adult life.