Weeks is fifteen and about to come of age abruptly.
Something unknown is roaring for her, tracking her out in the bush around her family's farm on the southern end of the Fraser Plateau in central British Columbia. This fear has risen up just as her life has become unstable. Her father has turned violent and unpredictable. Because of her father's public outbursts, her family is now shunned by the town. A classmate has been killed in a grisly animal attack.