The lives of people in small towns can be fascinating. Take, for example, the citizens of Owl, N. Dak. Mr. Laidlaw, the football coach and teacher, can't keep his hands off the young students. Then there's Horace the old widower, fond of coffee, tomato soup, and solitude. A freshly graduated young teacher named Julia moves to town, to take on a new job. And Mitch, an apathetic, yet insightful, high school student lives there, who daydreams of his scornful teacher meeting a violent death. ...