When a Canadian reporter goes on a mission to one of the most dangerous reaches of the globe, he expects to find the answers to all of the questions brought up in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombings. Instead he faces the impossibility of answering complex political questions in black-and-white print, and the more alluring question of how a Canadian Maple tree came to grow in an open field of the Dagestani foothills. Wrestling to balance his job with his life back home, he must decide how far his journalistic curiosity can take him before violence, intrigue or even love might carry him past a point of no return.