Northern Borders is a coming-of-age movie like no other, with Academy Award-nominee Bruce Dern playing a grandfather who takes in his 10 year-old grandson, Austen, at his home in Vermont. While Austen is there, he will experience once in a lifetime adventures, as well as uncover generations-old secrets about his eccentric e relatives, all the while trying to find a way back home, away from Vermont’s wilderness, and his harsh but loving family.