'Tell It Slant' channels the lesbian couple of Djuna Barnes' 'Nightwood', resetting their charged romance from 1920's Paris to contemporary Montreal's Plateau district Nora Flood, indigent in body and soul, searches for love through a confused adolescence in Vancouver and a lonely stint in Toronto, before settling in Montreal There, she meets Robin, a lover whose passionate nature teaches Nora that she must make a life for herself in the midst of uncertainty