Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Michael goes to Quebec City at request of Gabriella, Fact2: request of Gabriella left college in mid-semester, Fact3: situation is complicated by illness of Gabi 's grandmother matriarch of family and reason, Fact4: Gabi left school in reason first place, Fact5: Simone appears to have change of heart toward Michael
Output (English): Michael goes to Quebec City, Canada for Christmas at the request of his college girlfriend Gabriella, who left college in midsemester. He arrives and is left waiting at the airport for hours. Gabriella he calls her Gabi eventually arrives to pick him up and explains that sometimes they just dont answer their phone. He brushes off his frustration because hes happy to see her. When Michael arrives at the house and meets Gabis family, he finds them rather eccentric. Her father is wearing only a towel, but spends much of his time nude. He eventually explains that he is writing a treatise on Blaise Pascal and cannot write while dressed. The mother is a fiercely religious and very quiet woman. A Catholic priest named Father Walter, a close friend of the family, is also present. Michael also meets Gabis two energetic, beautiful, coquettish sisters Irenka and Simone, along with a handsome young handyman named Nick who is romantically involved with Irenka. Although Michael enthusiastically attempts to join in the unusual habits of the family, he quickly learns that fitting in will be a challenge. The situation is complicated by the illness of Gabis grandmother, the matriarch of the family, and the reason why Gabi left school in the first place. Michael commits the apparently unforgivable gaffe of expressing his condolences to Gabis mother. As soon as they have time alone, Gabi announces that she no longer loves him. His attempts to change her mind seem somewhat successful, but her fickleness continues to thwart him. In the meantime, he is seductively teased first by Irenka, then by Simone, all with Gabis apparent complicity. She appears to have a change of heart toward Michael, but then again decides that she doesn’t love him. Gabis grandmother, known only as Granny, is in a care facility apparently suffering from senile dementia. Upon meeting Michael, she acts as if he is her longdead husband, who was also named Michael. In an attempt to find her husband, she escapes from the hospital and goes to the country estate which they shared when they were first married. The girls, Nick, and Michael frantically rush to the estate, hoping Granny hasnt frozen in the cold. During their search, Michael gets lost in the woods and falls into a hole, unable to get out. He hears footsteps and finds it is Granny. She helps him out and they go back to the house, where Michael lights a fire and helps Granny out of her wet clothes. She then proceeds to talk to him as if he were her husband, and they form an unexpected bond. Granny falls ill on the return trip, and despite Nicks valiant attempt to reach a hospital in time, she dies. After the funeral, and a tryst with Irenka, Michael makes a solitary visit to Grannys grave, where he encounters a mysterious young woman and confesses to her that he deeply loved Granny. Later he recognizes the young woman from a photograph as Granny in her youth, and realizes their meeting may have been supernatural. Michael returns home and he never sees Gabi or her family again, as she has decided not to return to college.