The Recipe

It’s 1960 in rural Manitoba, and Oata has just discovered that her fiance, Yasch, has been stepping out with skinny Sadie Nickel. Oata is torn--does she still want to hitch her wagon to this fickle dow-nix? When a distraught Sadie turns up at Oata’s door, asking about a recipe rumoured to help a woman whose period is late, Oata must decide whether to help. In the process, Oata reassesses her situation and her own abundant assets. Does she really need pants with a man in them to run a farm?