Roberta Collineur, Ph.D., D.V.M., First Nations woman who is scientifically brilliant and tied to her cultural Spirit roots, has just graduated vet school after clawing her way out of an abusive and self-destructive past. Pans to start a new life in a prestigious clinic in Vancouver are foiled when she nearly runs over a wounded pup that mysteriously appears in the dead of night, leaving her stranded and penniless in a town filled with colorfully-dysfunctional rugged individualists with no shortage of secret pasts and present vulnerabilities. Top on the list is Doc Henry Steiner, old Redneck White veterinarian with a mysterious past, who hires Roberta for reasons he keeps to himself. Terri, a hyper-optimistic and naive neo-Hippie mechanic/veterinary assistant who really does believe that all you need is love, is about to have her eyes open to the world as it really is. Norma runs a highly illegal but effective animals rescue operation and is a Platonic friend of Doc Henry who wants to