Mount Pleasant (2006)

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 resources at the drug counseling center, while Doug is a work and stay-at-home dad looking after their adolescent daughter, Courtney Cameron. While Sarah and Doug love each other, their marriage may not be able to survive something that happens to Courtney largely a result of the neighborhood in which they live. An outcome of this issue is that Doug wants to rid Mount Pleasant of all the social ills associated with their neighborhood, especially as it concerns his family and almost at the expense of all else, while Sarah, who deals in social issues for work, hates that what has happened to Courtney may affect her empathy professionally. And the third couple is sixteen year old Nadia and her boyfriend Nick. Nick is a hard core drug addict who steals to support his habit, while Nadia, who also does drugs, hooks on the side, she often standing on a street corner of Mount Pleasant. While most of their money goes to drugs, Nadia has a goal of saving enough money for the two of them to go to Thailand. Following the recent passing of her father, the only family Nadia has left is her older sister Marya, who tries to tread the fine line of family, Nadia versus her yet unborn child. One of Nadia's regular Johns is Stephen, who can no longer do it with Anne in feeling much what Megan is feeling, Anne who is oblivious to both her husband and daughter's true feelings toward her beyond Stephen not being able to "get it up", which she believes is solely something that men of Stephen's age sometimes go through.