A collection of dark tales including a story about the murder of a Salvation Army officer in Winnipeg, life inside an Italian Fascist prison camp, the perverse social circle of the Kaiser, a young woman's therapeutic Mexican holiday, the unhappy life of an English tour rep on Malta, a young man's crush on his Herculean cinema idol, the traumatic separation from an imaginary friend, as well as stories told by cats and dogs. Spanning a range of times and places, most of the stories play at the boundaries of that undiscoverable county called Death.