Felix Ryan is a high school teacher jaded after twenty-five years in the classroom. We find him on the edge of a cliff in St. John's having a serious mid-life crisis. But everything changes when he gets a call from an old lover, Tammy Green. She tells him that someone is stealing his family land in their hometown, Curlew. John Baron, an oil magnate from North Dakota, wants to start fracking and promises millions to the community if they sign his leases. Only Felix's father objects to the project. Felix returns to his hometown, where he finds himself in the biggest and most important fight of his life.