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Everybody has secrets they'd rather forget, but Cape Breton photojournalist Mandy Valems is swimming in them. A year earlier she was helping to save the life of her best friend - a hazardous waste site - and wondering just what led to the dissolution of her family when she was a teenager. In 2014, after being rejected by a large writing agency, she's decided to come back to the little steel city of Sydney and leave her traveling career abroad behind. Alecto, her best friend and a guard of the Sydney Tar Ponds toxic waste site in Cape Breton, meets up with her again and in prose and short chapters, their adventures are recorded with all the color and vibrancy of an old home movie. As Mandy faces the truth about who her popular older brother was and what she's repressed, Alecto has to deal with the truth about his guardian, Mearth, who happens to finally be trying to understand him.