Jamie and his fiancee Bev are doing just fine in their basement apartment in Chapel Arm, Newfoundland. Bev works as a beautician, Jamie has a job as a Òdick-pickerÓ at the local fish plantÑand the young couple are expecting a baby.
But when JamieÕs childhood sweetheart, Dodi, returns unexpectedly from the mainland, their small-town world is rocked. Complicating matters is DodiÕs alcoholic uncle Art, who has just torched the house heÕs been living inÑand everyone in town knows he did it.
The characters navigate their way through a minefield of love, obsession, sex, loyalty, and betrayal as they seek to reconcile the past with their present reality. The raw emotion of Chapel Arm is balanced with a full measure of Newfoundland humour, and a powerful sense of language.