Jamie S. Merrigan

As Newfoundland and Labrador hurtles toward its Confederation vote, a murder aboard the infamous train turns a routine journey into a chaotic political whodunit where every passenger has a motive, and the future of a nation might just be riding on a narrow gauge.

Bernice, a 15 year old misfit runs away from her rural Newfoundland community in search of Pignut, a tormented and violent gutter punk, after he steals her father's ashes right out of his urn.