A week-old baby lies in a coma--the victim of an accident, or of his mother's distress. Christened Hope, he is alive yet unable to live. Most of the characters in Hope's orbit are also in limbo, unable to make sense of their lives or to grasp what they feel they deserve. While they struggle with their emotions, betrayals and heartbreaks, their good and bad decisions in their quest for survival, happiness and redemption, a serial killer emerges with the gruesome discovery of a headless young woman in Beaver Lake on Mount Royal.