February 2010: as Canada battles the US for Olympic hockey supremacy, a handful of engrossing, life-and-death dramas unfold in the back alleys, seedy bars and SROs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Filmmaker Wayne Wapeemukwa invites some of the city's marginalized citizens to step into starring roles, and he shines a light on the urban realities we're often too eager to avert our eyes from. In the process he crafts a discordant city symphony that charts Vancouver's complexities.