When Stella gets an opportunity to sing with her favorite rock band, things go so well they make her an offer she cannot refuse, but Stella is afraid she will end up like her irresponsible groupie mother.
Colette's family in torn apart by events and attitudes she cannot control, but she is determined to find a way to mend the rifts that threaten to destroy the people she loves.
Doris's worries multiply in 1931 when her mother loses her job and her brother Douglas gets in trouble with the law, but she finds reason to hope when a young friend claims he saw her runaway father working in a nearby town.
Eleven-year-old Lissa, miserable since moving with her mom from Victoria to southern Ontario, comes to accept her situation and even make friends after becoming involved with a young neighbor who has suffered a great loss.
