Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, the city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are, respectively, not speaking and talking far too much. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to return to Canada, she arrives home to find Min on her way to a psychiatric ward and becomes responsible for her niece and nephew. Realising that she is way out of her league, Hattie hatches a plan to find the kids' long-lost father. With only the most tenuous lead to go on, she piles Logan and Thebes into the family van and they head south...