Tori Liddell has struggled through her twenties. Suffering from undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder, she documents her radical lifestyle changes and shifting identity through colorful tattoos. After years spent disconnecting from family and widening the rift created by absence, Tori returns to small-town Oregon to help facilitate the care of her mother, recently diagnosed with AIDS. At her homecoming, she faces an irritable, sick woman she barely recognizes and is forced to sift through her own emotional baggage brought to the surface by the advances of an enigmatic new neighbor. Tori searches for the meaning of home in the rubble of her past, but comes to realize that things and people are not always the way she remembered.
Inked is a window into the life of a woman trying to overcome herself, her choices and a psychological affliction etched under her skin.