A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.
Baba
A cidade de Archangel recebe hóspedes durante o avanço bolchevique e um soldado, que está no centro da narrativa, apaixona-se perdidamente por uma mulher que lembra sua amada morta. Ambientado no norte da Rússia em 1919.
Amma
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Widow
The patriarch of a troubled clan dies, but the resentment and yearning of the eldest son conspire to bring the errant father back for periodic visits in an only partially living state.