Julie is a 17 year old girl in the Canadian town of Ormond which she finds suffocating and desperately wants to leave she comes from a rich family with a gullible mother and father who see her as a golden child she doesn't smoke thinking it's disgusting and often draws art she wants to be remembered and has an obsession with serial killers and cults she has a best friend Susie who's shy and another friend Joey she has thoughts and dreams of occasional violence and is attracted to excitement