A sensuous woman, an angry artist, a mysterious puppet maker, suspicious townspeople, and mischievous kids are the characters in the film. The character names Peter is loosely based on Peter Schuman from Bread and Puppet. From the Filmmakers Coop description: The setting is contemporary Vermont, but it is Walter Ungerer's Vermont; the landscape, though beautiful and tranquil, is charged with an ominousness familiar to Ungerer films. Everything takes on a greater importance; time loses its boundaries. Through Ungerer's vision, people are transformed into inhabitants of a world that is at once ordinary and strange.