In the 1960s, a old woman, her son, and her daughter-in-law host guests for Sunday lunch. The woman thinks she has kept the nuclear shelter beneath the house secret from her son, with whom she has a strained relationship. However, her son knows and has installed a back way in, such that he can surprise her there after she locks herself inside.

A home nurse pieces together the events of a murder after a group of young boys find a dead body in a small Toronto town. She grapples with whether to turn in the murderer—her late patient's husband—and ultimately decides to risk death to confront him directly, with a romantic vision of him turning himself in to relieve his conscience.