A girl who is engaged to be married, is left with no one to turn to when she is brutally assaulted by her boyfriend's friend while he is working away in another village.

Filmmaker Sam Karney and Metis poet Katherena Vermette journey to Winnipeg's North End, one of the most economically depressed and violent neighbourhoods in Canada, only to find some of the most wonderful and warm people, dispelling many of their preconceptions of the people who call the place home.