Seventeen-year-old Jamilah Monsour makes plans for what she's certain is the beginning of the climate change catastrophe that will end the world. Luckily, Jamilah knows what has to be done to save her family: reluctantly her parents allow her to transform the back alley garage into a bunker, but they draw the line when she announces she's going to skip university and instead use the money they had saved for her education to buy solar panels and a generator.
When an electricity blackout strikes, Jamilah's climate change anxiety kicks into high gear and she ends up staying out all night, infuriating her father who is done with all this doomsday nonsense.
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It's 1980 and 13-year-old Marnie Harmon is trapped in the suburbs. She's surrounded by disco, polyester, patriarchy, and pervy teachers who seem to be sleeping with her friends. After an ill-conceived murder attempt on one of the said pervy teachers, Marnie is sent to an all-girls Catholic school. There she discovers the punk world -- soon she is hanging out with strippers, drinking beer and smoking in the girls' room. Yet the inanity of school and parents drive her to seek refuge in her dream of meeting John Lennon in New York. But New York is a long way from Ottawa and Marnie doesn't have the bus fare. Will she make it to New York? Will she be thrown in jail for attempting to murder her teacher? Will music save her soul?