In 1938, an alpine dressmaker begins repairing coats for travelers who cannot safely explain their journeys. An unfinished wedding dress forces her to choose between the village's profitable silence and a person waiting beyond the pass.
In a fictional port in 1908, a florist receives simultaneous orders from a visiting minister and the workers protesting his arrival. Keeping her shop alive means deciding which public celebration her flowers will describe, and who gets to call the result beautiful.
In an invented border town in 1943, a baker accepts an unfinished wedding cake from a traveler who cannot continue. Delivering it means asking what a celebration can preserve when the people it belongs to are scattered.