As a hot-headed college senior who’s led a privileged life, Rachel is particularly frustrated when she’s forced to serve community service over the holidays at a soup kitchen in 2007 Montreal.
Yet the experience starts opening her eyes to a world she had previously disdained, especially when she meets Ben, a former Iraq war vet. Fascinated, intrigued, and admittedly attracted, she can’t help but want to dig deeper into the mysterious artist/poet. But a broken man with PTSD and personal trauma who has given up on life is not easily won, despite the help she tries to give him.