 A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston s ex-wife and the band s former lead singer is not enthusiastic about the idea. Meanwhile Steph is having realtionship trouble with Rose, an older woman that he s been seeing and drifts first to Marie-Lou and then to Charles, who once left town but is now back.