A dark comedy about truth, transformation and the difficulty of finding a quiet place to kill yourself. Over the course of twenty-four hours, we follow the lives of several characters as they attempt to maintain business as usual in the face of a very unusual business in the small Maritime island town of Wilby.

Carol French (Sandra Oh), the local realtor, is trying to sell the mayor (Maury Chaykin) her late mother-in-law’s house. Her police officer husband Buddy (Paul Gross) is in the middle of an investigation into the town’s deviant underbelly while about to begin a love affair with the wrong-side-of-the-tracks just-back-in-town Sandra Anderson (Rebecca Jenkins). Meanwhile, Sandra’s daughter Emily (Ellen Page) is about to begin a love affair of her own. Add to the mix the apparently dyslexic sign painter Duck MacDonald (Callum Keith Rennie), the new-to-town depressive video store owner Dan Jarvis (James Allodi) and Buddy’s partner – thick as a brick Stan (Daniel MacIvor) and it’s just another Thursday in Wilby. But why is Dan trying to kill himself in all the wrong places? Where is Stan getting all the drugs? What is Carol going to do about the body in the closet? And why does Duck have the whole thing backwards?

To be released theatrically October, 2004 in Canada.

Official Selection at the 2004 Atlantic Film Festival (Opening Night Gala), Toronto International Film Festival, Filmfest Hamburg, and in competition for the Altadis New Directors' Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Financed by Telefilm Canada, Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, The Harold Greenberg Fund, South West Shore Regional Development Authority, CITY TV, The Movie Network, Movie Central, and the CBC.

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