Luminescent Sisterhood

Elena Gonzalez Schwartz, 65 years still-idealist Canadian Socialist-activist writer and self-made contemporary mountain woman, has her hands full trying to (a) hold on to her job at a local newspaper where her attempts to write real stories are quenched by a stuck up and popular power bitch editor, (b) keep her own horses/dogs fed at home along with the strays that find their way to her door, (c) serve the medical needs of the neighborhood critters without a license to practice medicine and (d) process the death of yet another Old German, her beloved landlord, who died of cancer in her beloved haven of backwater Freshwater, BC. Enter Elena’s biologically younger but ‘more mature’ sister, Carlata, a Right Wing Capitalist who left her backwoods home to become a success in New York, and by all accounts known to Elena anyway, has become so. Carlata and Elena deal with the legacy and circumstances of their Radical Socialist mother’s death, the finding of mineral wealth on the mountain which could change the future of Freshwater forever (for better or worse), and ghosts from their past who pit them against each other at a time when unification is essential for their own survival, as well as many, perhaps innocent, bystanders around them.