Hanna is a third-generation Ukrainian Canadian whose grandfather, a naturalist and noted icon painter, came to Canada to escape conscription in a foreign army only to spend his first six years confined in the WWI internment camps at Spirit Lake and MacPherson Station. His unjust imprisionment casts a shadow on all his future kin, from Julia, his enterprising prostitute daughter, to Hanna and Denis, his twin terrorist grandchildren. Hanna's sociopathy and environmental extremism lead her to a remote Arctic community in search of the primaeval man, the tool with which she will deliver to the modern world his right legacy, a perverse message of redemption and hope.