A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

A mentally unbalanced patient released from a mental hospital go to Florida to terrorize an unsuspecting family.

It is a morality tale with fairy-tale inflections that focuses on Boris Malinovsky, an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis.