She is a self-reliant and perceptive hobby farmer in her early thirties. Her physical strength is matched by a quiet wisdom and a grounded perspective on life, death, and the cycles of nature, which she runs her small farm by. While her incredibly intelligent Kelpie is the protagonist driving the story's action, Maeve delivers the film's most crucial lines of dialogue. Her words are few but profound, serving to reveal the core truth and thematic heart of the entire short film.