Nerina, a young woman living in Venice after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, is looking for a way to move to...

It’s Montreal, 1953, and eight-year-old Ellen, an only child prone to daydreaming, and her mother, a woman who believes in the promise of fresh starts, have moved into a large house on the flanks of Mt. Royal. To make ends meet, Ellen’s mother takes in a group of refugees...

A crisp March morning in the Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris. Claire, waiting to meet her husband, Adrian, has more than a tourist’s passing interest in the place. She has come to France to be with Adrian while he researches a book on French gardens, but Claire’s real mission is...

These six stories are about real people—Pierre Vallières, Paul Rose, the Mohawks, Paolo Violi, Claude Jutra, and Jean Castonguay. Each in turn exhibits an acute discomfort with the world as it is, a fierce resistance against the passivity and apathy that drags at life’s coat-tails, and an inclination—nourished by...