高绮接受新男朋友奈德的邀请，到他的旧友家聚餐，却在出发前收到一连串的恶作剧电话。高绮在聚会中认识了哥顿、史丹两兄弟及其家人，然而高绮却跟他们格格不入。此时，奈德的妻子突然到访，初萌芽的恋情不欢而终。高绮无奈在郊区留宿，怎知史丹将她囚禁，被迫服食迷幻药，沦为泄欲玩物．．．

Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living. Paul finds himself enmeshed in a web of jealousy, bitterness and fear as his attraction to Rauchine begins to grow. After a failed attempt to leave the island with Paul, Rauchine must make a crucial decision and break the cycle of violence and death that has marked her life.

查尔斯·狄更斯 (Charles Dickens) 令人难以忘怀的半自传故事，讲述了一个男孩在母亲去世后被继父送走，但他设法战胜了难以置信的逆境。