Girl from the North Country

The songs of Bob Dylan are repurposed to progress a story set in the Great Depression. It's late autumn 1934 in Duluth, MN. Nick and Elizabeth Laine operate a run down rooming house in a building inherited by Rick but Elizabeth the one who made the decision to turn it into this business. With Nick having no business sense, they have struggled financially ever since Elizabeth started losing her mind, with the bank close to foreclosing leaving them with an uncertain future. Things are not helped by their young adult son Gene being a struggling writer with no form of income which quietly does not sit well with his girlfriend Kate Draper, and their adopted single young adult black daughter Marianne pregnant, the identity of the father who she will not divulge. What happens with the Laines is affected by the wide array of people in their lives, the largest affect arguably by the people having been in it the shortest, two strangers looking for a place to stay for the evening in they adding a disruption to the established pattern.