After a seven-year absence, Jeremy Little comes home to the town of Seymour, Alberta, where a teenage trauma shaped his outlook on life. At a graduation party, after getting drunk, Jeremy is beaten up and urinated on by Nick Lozinski when Nick catches him kissing his girl, Tracy. Enraged, Jeremy enrolls in martial arts school in Seymour. He finishes High School and leaves for Boston to study drama, but instead becomes obsessed with martial arts training. He eventually owns the school, finds a girlfriend and things look good until one of his students kills a gay man. The resulting publicity destroys his business and he returns to Seymour, where he is forced to confront his old demons. He begins to confront his long-standing anger for his father, who had begun an affair with another woman as his wife was dying of cancer. By dealing with old ghosts, such as Tracy, who broke up with Nick, and his younger brother Denton, Jeremy eventually realizes the hold anger had on him over the years. After a bitter confrontation with a friend of his dad’s and dealing with his brother’s violent outburst toward a girl, Jeremy lets go and opens himself up to the family. He accepts his father’s happiness with the woman who took his mother’s place. He also begins to learn of the possibilities of love.