- A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.
- Welcome to Lytton - Population 350. Home of the World Famous Gold Rush Days... and not much else. Cole Chambers is a young man who has spent his entire life picking up the pieces of his shattered family. He protects his older sister's 6 year-old son from his abusive step father. He manages the family gas station and cares for his brain-damaged mother, whose condition he feels utterly responsible for. Frustrated and trapped, Cole carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. He dreams for something, anything beyond his monotonous life. When Cole gets the opportunity to take a creative writing class at a University in the city, he sees his potential for the first time - that he can get out of small town Lytton and actually make something out of his life... but at what cost? Cole spends increasing amounts of time away from home, falling in love with Serafina, a rich girl from his writing class. Family and friends in Lytton fall apart without Cole's careful guidance. Unable to escape the guilt of leaving his family to fend for themselves, Cole returns to help them out, only to have Serafina visit him at the most inopportune time. Her visit serves as a catalyst for a series of tragic events that alter the lives of everyone in this small town forever...—Anonymous
- 22-year-old Cole feels trapped by his rigid life, unable to fulfill his writing dreams. When opportunity knocks, he jumps at the chance to escape his broken family. Feeling guilty for his abandonment, he returns home, followed by a girl from school-that has an unexpected impact on the town.—Pusan International Film Festival
- Cole Chambers has lived his entire young life in Lytton, British Columbia, where the opportunities for his generation are minimal. As an example, he and his friends, Frogger chief amongst them, are constantly drunk and/or stoned, or on their way to it as there is seemingly nothing else to do in town. He aspires to be a writer but doesn't know if he's any good at it. That's why he's excited to be accepted into a post-secondary level creative writing class in Vancouver, which is a three hour drive away. Going to the class doesn't sit well with his sister, May, as she sees that his responsibility should be to the family by helping her run the family business, the town's only gas station, with her deadbeat, redneck and abusive live-in boyfriend Bobby, helping with her two children, only one of whose is Bobby's biological child, and taking care of their mentally disabled mother. Cole is torn between his wants and his obligations in life, which include the aforementioned family, his want to write, which he learns he does have an aptitude for, and to use that as a stepping stone to get out of Lytton to a better life for him and his family, and to get to know Serafina Church better, she an outspoken and privileged young woman in his class who feels she doesn't have his gift since she hasn't suffered like many of the greatest writers. Getting to know Serafina better may be a difficult task as her family sees him as being white trailer trash, and he in turn feels uncomfortable in her world as his family problems start to mount, especially with Bobby's increasingly violent behavior.—Huggo
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