After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a home. Lured by the possibility of easy cash, she joins Lila, a widowed Mohawk who earns a living by smuggling immigrants from Canada to the U.S. across the St. Lawrence.

Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.

When the relationship between Troy and Lisa, a Native American couple, deteriorates into toxic shambles, Troy stumbles upon an inter-dimensional object that turns out to be more a curse than a blessing to himself, and everyone around him.