Little Miss Sunshine meets Room with this quirky, heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty and breakthrough.

It’s Newfoundland, 1986. Fourteen-year-old Bun O’Keefe provides lived a solitary lifestyle in an unsafe, unsanitary home. Her mother is normally a compulsive hoarder, and Bun has had little contact with the outside globe. What she’s learned all about life originates from the random books and older VHS tapes that she finds in the containers and hand bags her mom brings house. Bun and her mom rarely talk, therefore when Bun’s mother about The Agony of Bun O’Keefe tells Bun to keep one day, she will. Hitchhiking out of city, Bun ends up on the streets of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Luckily, the first person she matches is Busker Boy, a road musician who senses her naivety and will take her in. Jointly they live in a house with an eclectic ensemble of personas: Chef, a hotel dishwasher with culinary dreams; Cher, a move queen having a tragic past; Big Eyes, a Catholic college girl desperately wanting to reinvent herself; as well as the Landlord, a man who Bun can be told in order to avoid by any means. Through her encounters with her fresh roommates, and their sometimes tragic revelations, Bun learns which the world extends beyond the wall space of her mother’s house and discovers the pleasure of being section of a new family — a family of friends who care.