CIA officer William "Skip" Sands travels to Vietnam in 1967 as part of a team running deceptive operations against North Vietnam, but his involvement in their latest assignment is complicated by a Canadian nurse and two brothers whose misguided beliefs threaten the entire operation.
Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West in the early twentieth century, lives a solitary life after the deaths of his wife and daughter in a fire, watching the world change and being known by everyone but close to no one.