A tenuously linked group of nobodies trudge through their woeful existence in dreary Winnipeg       A sickly middle-aged man in a failing marriage, a stand-up comedian whose sets are met by utter indifference, a stoner couple who share only trivial exchanges, and a young loner unsympathetic to his caring mother are each living lives lost in translation, detached from their surroundings and the people around them       -- from viff      org