Viv is a woman of many sides smart but easily misled, practical but given to odd ideas, calculating but prone to pitfalls, interested in ideas but a shallow thinker, insecure and vulnerable but determined and hard, capable of strong friendship but also capable of saying, "Loyalty is a means to an end."
She and her husband live in a condominium in Western Canada in a place that resembles Edmonton, Alberta. Extremely frustrated by having to live with decisions made by the condo board, she rebels and plans to run for board president. She even thinks about separating from condo life and finding a dream home of her own to match her dream of personal perfection. But can living with dreams bring her true happiness? And is she living her own destiny or someone else's?