It deals with guilt, sorrow, celebration, rebellion, longing. Making a family history brings a young man face to face with himself. Fleeing a family history turns a young man into an exile. The place we occupy in the family may make combatants of us all. The quarrel of a brother and sister threatens to tear a family apart.
Sisters make peace and find their way back to each other's affection.
In which the family photograph album is taken out and examined. We cannot escape them. They're about birth, loss, and death within the family. Generations pass as inevitably as time. A sixtieth birthday is marked and a baby is mourned.