Stella Sparrow, the latest in a long history of Sparrow women to have special gifts, discovers on her thirteenth birthday that she can see the future, an ability that has both positive and negative effects on her life and her family members.

Four short stories, performed in the dialect of southern Maine. The topics are two friends, one poor, one well-off, sitting with the body of their common friend; an act of charity is to allow a poor elderly city dweller to visit for a week, but it's a man; a woman now homeless on a train; and three friends at the poor house and the adventures of Betsey Lane.