Set in 1996, White Elephant, is about Pooja, an Indo Canadian teenage girl with an innocent crush on Trevor, a local white boy a white boy just like the teen heartthrobs she sees in all the movies and TV shes obsessed with A boy unlike all the other boys in her mostly Brown and Black neighborhood However, growing up in a majority minority neighborhood makes her efforts to pursue Trevor harrowing As her attempts to spend time with him get bolder, the cultural divide between their groups of friends grows larger The rift ultimately becomes more hostile than she couldve imagined But this isnt your typical forbidden love story Its a self love story