Astrid, a prodigious student and pride of her community, returns to Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, with only one term left at McGill University. She announces that she will not be returning to school. The isolation of the metropolis had led her to fail her courses. Stripped of her student identity, Astrid contemplates an uncertain future. For the first time in her life, she feels lost. But, with the help of her younger sister, she realizes that it is the community that she thought she had left behind forever that will help her to find herself again.