Elements of women's lives are related in three formats and interwoven segments. A grandmother's story unfolds as vertically scrolling text through images of water and land, and a brief glimpse of an older and younger woman talking together. A granddaughter's voice, alternating between she and I, relates memories and anecdotes. Another voice recites a Yiddish poem, untranslated, for its lilting rhythm and related images of gravestones and obituaries. A little girl impersonates past and present, neighbourhoods of Winnipeg are explored, and the story ends with a sequence of domestic life.