When his landlord tells him he must move out by the end of the month, a jobless, penniless young man has to find a way to start over while he navigates corruption all around him.

A sign painter in rural Ontario has a hobby of woodcutting in the nearby countryside. When he hears a rumor of a competitor's contract for an area where he had already planned to gather wood, he rushes to cut down as many trees as he can, but his haste leads to an accident with potentially deadly consequences.