India, June 5 -- Friends can sometimes see you as no one else does.

That's how it is for a young woman holding it together as she juggles work as a chef in Montreal, wards off a lecherous boss, cares for an ailing grandfather, copes with a distant mother, listens to mindfulness tapes, and runs, runs, runs, even when she knows she shouldn't.

The woman is Lucy aka Cannon. The friend is Trish, a writer with a chaotic love life. Lucy is her confidante, advisor, troubleshooter. But now, their relationship is wobbling. Trish, it turns out, has secretly been mining her friend's life for her fledgling writing career. Learning this, years of exhaustion, obligation and anger start to spill over for Lucy.

The graphic novel that tells this story, ...