Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer has had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and an aging Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate — and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup.

On a lonely Christmas night, Missy falls into a slope of overdrinking. That night, Buck, a mystical creature, stumbles its way into Missy’s apartment. Yearning for food, the passive monster finds itself trapped in the woman’s claws.