It’s the sum­mer of 2013 and 21-year-old Ruby, a coun­selor at Camp Burntshore, can’t wait for a sum­mer of fun. But when Brett, the camp owner’s son, hires Israeli sol­diers to deal with a staffing short­fall, Ruby, a com­mit­ted anti-Zion­ist, must decide if she’s will­ing to jeop­ar­dize her place at Burntshore to fight Brett over the con­tentious issues of Jew­ish belong­ing and set­tler colo­nial­ism, even as she finds her­self falling in love with one of the sol­diers, Etai.

Soon it became clear that the con­flict was not just about the camp’s inter­nal divi­sions but also about Burntshore’s rela­tion­ship with the neigh­bor­ing Black Spruce First Nation, strained because of Brett’s scheme to buy the Crown land sur­round­ing the lake. As campers swim, canoe, and stage an over-the-top musi­cal, Ruby has to con­tend with her feel­ings for Etai while also try­ing to save her beloved camp from greed and colo­nial­ism. 

A social satire, romance, and polit­i­cal com­men­tary, Lake Burntshore cel­e­brates the con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish world through its most icon­ic sym­bol — the often idyl­lic yet always dra­mat­ic sum­mer camp.