At the end of a two-and-a-half mile tunnel in the midst of the Alaskan wild is a town where everyone lives in a single, high-rise apartment building. A former military outpost, it has become its own microcosm – equipped with a post office, a grocery store, and a church. The elevators are the town square, the hallways its playground, and when a pipe clogs on the eighth floor, the entire town feels it for days.
This interconnectedness and isolation make it all the more difficult for 42-year-old Leni, to hide the fact that her body is playing strange tricks on her. Oliver, her 8-year-old son believes her to be possessed by the Samoan spirit of Ma’i Aitu who lives in the body of Kevin, the rescued moose calf that sleeps on their couch. But Mabel, Leni’s mother, is convinced Leni’s just fallen off the wagon again.
Meanwhile the rest of the residents, like Natak and Margie, live out their private lives on top and beside one another, sometimes in public and sometimes in the solitude of their own un-lived thoughts as the salmon migrate further north, threatening the livelihood of everyone.