Mount Pleasant

The intersecting stories of three very different couples in Vancouver are told, those stories largely focusing on the issue of the socioeconomic and housing divide in the city. The first couple, wealthy Anne and Stephen Burrows, live on the expensive west side. Stephen, a real estate agent, deals exclusively on the west side, selling his clients that the prestige and safety is worth the hefty price tag compared to other neighborhoods. Anne, who is organizing a fundraiser for a new housing project for youth at risk in working for a drug counseling center, is all about appearance. Their thirteen year old daughter Megan Burrows, hates her mother in Anne trying to control everything to her perfect, upscale, west side sensibility, shy Megan who has not been able to find her voice as a result. The second couple is Sarah and Doug Cameron, who have just bought their first house in the working class neighborhood of Mount Pleasant on the east side. Sarah is Anne's colleague working in human reso