Luka is eight years old when her mother disappears. As an adult, she learns to navigate the world as a single parent and ends up travelling back to the family farm to live with her grandmother. Haunted by the question of what happened to her mother, she decides to look for her and is drawn to the dockyards of the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver to seek out anyone who may have seen her. The discovery of some diaries on the old homestead provides more information and some startling revelations about her mother's life.