故事发生在美国内战时期，主人公是两名护士志愿者——来自新英格兰地区并支持废奴主义的Mary Phinney（Mary Elizabeth Winstead）和支持南方联盟国的南方佳丽Emma Green（Hannah James）。Green家族在弗吉尼亚州的亚历山大市经营豪华酒店生意，北方联邦军1862年占领这座城市后，他们的酒店被改造成专门治疗战争伤员的「大厦之屋医院」（Mansion House Hospital）。
In the winter of 1982 three American boys find themselves stranded in a cable car with a dead body mid-air in the mountains of Norway, during a rare celestial event. What they are about to discover will affect their lives forever.
The indie centers on a South Asian family in Toronto and the suburb of Scarborough. Ash is caught between two worlds he must constantly traverse, one that of an aspiring writer in Toronto and that of his family in the immigrant-rich suburb of Scarborough.
