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Corporal Belvedere, a Mountie scarred by a brutal past, and Surgeon Virgil Montgomery, a newcomer haunted by his own doubts, are drawn into a murder investigation in the isolated settlement of Prince Albert. As winter’s grip tightens, the killing exposes a web of secrets buried beneath the snow, threatening to unravel the fragile order of the North-West Territories.

Both Phillips and the theatre are stuck in a run-down neighbourhood and fighting a shady reputation and a police commissioner who demands “morally upstanding” plays. Phillips must put on the best show each and every night to a “sketchy” (at best) audience that demands to be entertained. Meanwhile, the actors, ranging from self-obsessed to alcoholic (each with more issues than the last), are trying their best to muddle through the plays written for them by a playwright so decrepit and addicted to laudanum that no one is ever sure what to expect.