The Burton Effect
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They're a little sass and loads of badass, Canadian born fraternal twins Bianca and Mackenzie find themselves all alone living in the rural Italian district of Toronto when their drug addict mother relapses. Mackenzie flees in the middle of the night to start a new journey of her own (Detroit, Michigan) to find more about their estranged, bad boy egotistical father, Danny.
However, their stay up in 'Danny Land' is cut massively short when they overhear their father confessing to his friends that he's just way too inexperienced at the whole dad game. Extremely hurt and very much out of options, it drives one sister to leave for good but at the very same time, she's involved in a horrific car accident that almost costs her her life.
With this unexpected life encounter, this is a story about two young girls trying to make amends with their deadbeat father; but also live up to the new, unimaginable realities that now have been gained.
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