Ontario - 1972. Miles, a young theatre actor from Toronto, arrives in Huron County at the home of Angus and Morgan, two aging bachelor farmers. Miles stays with the two farmers in order to gather stories about rural life and make a play abut it. All three of their lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between truth and fiction is crossed.
Ginger imagines a future for her family that is much nicer than the dark and smelly intensive Pig Farm where they all live.
Seeking a fresh start, Charlotte and her husband, Joel, pack up their lives in the big city and head to the suburbs, where they find an incredible deal on a beautiful home. Yet all is not what it seems. Their house is “the murder house”, and Charlotte soon finds clues left by the former resident before her murder, making her question which one of their neighbors knew all along and have been covering it up.
In the summer of 1970, a trio of wayward hippies slip over the Canadian border to dodge the draft, setting up a roadside fruit stand to make some cash as they go. Trouble soon comes their way when they cross paths with a family of fundamentalist farmers who don’t take kindly to the interlopers. What unfolds next explores the timeless rifts between younger and older generations as the sweltering heat ratchets up the tension.