A lone farmer watches as a town nearly self destructs on a day the sun fails to rise. A woman dedicated to becoming Ivan the Terrible has second thoughts. A man with a tooth ache is introduced to the pleasure and pain of a dominatrix when he goes into the wrong office. A grizzled ex-pat tells the saga of Sloppy's Choppers and the albino cobras to a backpacker in the south of Cambodia. Short stories like no others.