Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
When Miles, a biochemistry undergrad recovering from a great personal loss, learns that the most recent victim in a raft of missing persons is someone he knows, he unwillingly finds his way into the dungeon of the horrific and unstable Doctor Janus.
Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.
