From the flat roof of his old house, a young Nova Scotian turns and takes a 360o look at life in Sambro, Nova Scotia, the small coastal village where he now lives.
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves".