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With their school friends miles away in neighboring Ponoka, two kids are seemingly trapped in the expansive isolation of rural Alberta, Canada, destined to spend the summer vacation in each other's company. Thirteen-year-old Cameron Keller finds welcome relief from his boozing father's physical beatings in the presence of classmate Ani Sauvé. The summer heat spreading across the acres of prairies and grasslands only encourage the feelings that have begun to grow within them. Curiosities, heartbeats, fireflies and unexplained feelings blossom between the two. As they grow into adults, the fate of Cam's nightmare grows with him. A dark cloud of ill luck follows him around mercilessly, as does his unconditional love for Ani. Unable to shake the first and not willing to shake the latter, he fights to survive.
But alcoholism, abandonment, abuse, betrayal, and murder can not keep Ani and Cam apart. The Garden is their refuge and saviour, and its memory pushes them past whatever penances they must endure to find each other again.
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