Takes place over the summer. A 16-year-old boy named Mark Berman, who is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, is the main character in this story. When his uncle gets married to a woman from Moscow, the woman and her daughter, Natasha, come to Canada. Mark, a lazy person, is forced by his parents to take care of the weird girl. His friend tells him that she had a troubled and promiscuous life when she lived in Moscow. Secret and forbidden love grows between the two of them, and it has strange and tragic consequences for everyone.