Over the centuries a variety of colourful settlers have washed up on the shores of Cape Breton Island in search of a promised land; French, English, Irish, Highland Scots. In 1970 a small group of hippies arrive in pursuit of their dream, hopelessly unequipped to meet the challenges of farming the rocking land. Then, early in the new millennium, a financially encumbered medical doctor coaxes her asthmatic old K-Car across the Canso Causeway to take up her first job at the small clinic in the tourist village of Baddeck.
