一位怪老头鸡农，在他的外孙女的帮助下，训练他的淘气的狗“怪怪”保护一个企鹅保护区免受狐狸的袭击，并以此来团结他的家人，挽救他们的滨海小镇。

JONAH, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teen-aged daughter AURORA on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights - before her vision disorder renders her completely blind.

When Spencer King, a United States Marine, returns home from a horrific wartime experience, his mundane reality leads him to gravitate towards a new and mysterious woman on her own determined journey. Together, they enter into a magical but destructive new relationship which ultimately exposes their essential truths.