The slight strain in the relationship that Sara Leblanc has with her mother Claire, in whose Montréal pet store, Twit Palace, Sara works, is exacerbated when Sara's father/Claire's ex-husband succumbs to his cancer. Sara blames Claire in chaining her to the store in it being solely a family business for she not having any sort of life, and which she sees as having prevented her from saying goodbye to her father before his passing. In her anger and as a means to have that connection to her father, Sara decides to head off immediately without okaying with Claire what was supposed to be her and her father's imminent weekend fishing getaway at Lac-St-Jean in the Laurentides, close to where Sara grew up and like the two of them did when Sara was a child. She will be staying at the Laurentide Lodge, owned and operated by the Richard family: father Real, and his two sons, Sebas, the "player" who uses his position to his advantage, and Daniel, the directionless one who often and shamelessly shirks his responsibilities. After Sara's arrival, Dan and she ultimately come to the realization that they were classmates in elementary school. Able to overcome their initial animosity borne in part to that history where they were nowhere close to ever being friends in their childhood, they end up bonding over their shared loneliness and loss of a sense of being. In striking a relationship, Sara may inadvertently get caught in the middle of the battle Dan and Sebas have with a couple of unknown poachers on the vast lodge property.