Seventeen-year-old Dolina May Hunter doesn't quite know how to handle the generosity of the perfect strangers who take her in during her time of need--a Manitoba farm family that finds her in the rain after she jumps out of her abusive boyfriend's car.
Fourteen-year-old Sylvie Marchione struggles to deal with school pressure, the return of her absentee father, and her mother's battle with Alzheimer's Disease.