JONAH, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teenaged daughter AURORA on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights - before her vision disorder renders her completely blind. With a volatile bookie in hot pursuit, Jonah and Aurora are forced to finally confront each other, and their complicated pasts.

Dash has nothing figured out. He's 33, broke, depressed and still in love with his ex, Lauren. Dash's world explodes when Lauren gets engaged to a man she barely knows. Life looks pretty hopeless for Dash until he meets Nora van Denbrock, a spontaneous, unforgettable woman. However, timing is everything, and Nora is not the type of woman who is going to wait around for Dash to figure out his life. Dash desperately needs to change. With his life crumbling around him, he does what every neurotic, immature, hopeless romantic, male would do. Dash goes for psychotherapy. Under the guidance of Dr. Goldberg, he navigates through the confusing labyrinth of love and faces the harsh realities of growing up. Unfortunately Dash is trapped in a perpetual state of unrequited love. He can't let go of the past. At the end of his rope, he is forced to make a huge decision that will change his life forever. And so the story goes: boy loses girl, boy meets new girl, boy loses mind, boy finds himself ...

When lives intertwine during Christmas, hope is the only unifying gift. After suffering a personal tragedy, a social worker throws herself into finding homes for children in need.