A painter who has lost the meaning of life due to war recalls a story from his childhood in a brief moment when he tries to commit suicide. The child picks up the doll that was left in the field and hides it at the base of a tree by the river. However, the doll is swept away by a flood, and the child who is trying to find the doll loses even an umbrella. After the flood stopped, the child went to the stream... He found a small fish in an umbrella hanging from a tree branch, took the fish in his hand, and released it to the stream...
A story about Boyong, the master barber, and Apolinario, Boyong's nephew and apprentice. They man their shabby barbershop, dreaming of hitting the big time someday.
In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal.
Azam, who is convicted on charges of robbery is finally released after serving a 17-year sentence. With hopes of starting life anew, he hopes to reconcile with his family.
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
