Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived for her first year of university, leaving her remote, forested hometown for Toronto. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. Natalie doesn't know what she wants. Just as she is trying to find her footing, she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her. Worried about how her floormates will react to news of her relationship with a woman, Natalie explains her absence by inventing a secret boyfriend. But when it becomes clear that Nora is lying, too, her secrets begin to take an alarming shape in Natalie's life.
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