Alan is a middle-aged business owner in contemporaryToronto that has devoted himself to renovating a house inside a bohemianneighborhood. This naturally brings him in touch with the house full ofstudents and layabouts nearby, including a woman who, in an instant ofstress, reveals to him that she’s wings-wings, furthermore, that grow back again aftereach try to trim them off.

Alan understands. He himself includes a secret or two.His dad is a hill, his mother is a washing machine, and among his about Someone Involves Town, Someone Leaves Town brothersare a couple of Russian nesting dolls.

Now two from the three nesting dolls, Edward andFrederick, are in his doorstep-well on their way to starvation because theirinnermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another sibling,Davey, whom Alan and his various other siblings killed years back, may have came back … benton revenge.

Under such circumstances it appears only reasonablefor Alan to involve himself with a visionary system to blanket Toronto withfree wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brillianttechnopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city’sdumpsters. But Alan’s previous won’t keep him alone-and Davey is only among thepowers gunning for him and all his friends.