In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada. When Holger decides to go fight for the Union in the burgeoning Civil War, Vivienne must fend for herself, which isn't easy in a town controlled by a corrupt mayor.

A cowboy arrives in a village in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in a the Amazon forest.

Sebastian, a sharp and clever teenager is once again expelled from school, just when his mother Luisa, a reputed psychologist, is about to take a very important step in her career. As a ticking time bomb that just explode, Sebastián runs away from home thinking that his father, whom he hasn't seen in years, will grant him the solutions to all his problems.

Megismerhetünk öt fiatalembert és a marginalizált, kirekesztett embereket, akik helyet keresnek a világban.

A writer returns home, during a period of writer's block, to confront his collapsing family. His wife is struggling to handle their gifted daughter, whose behavior is increasingly volatile. It soon becomes clear that the only solution is to split up the family, but a clean break is easier said than done. When the floodgates of the past open, it's hard to come away unscathed.