The filmmaker, Atom Egoyan, plays a photographer hired to make twelve images of Armenian churches for a calendar. He travels with his wife (Arsinée Khanjian, his real-life live-in partner) as translator; and, as they journey with an Armenian guide, their relationship begins to unravel. The photographer returns to Canada with the pictures but wifeless, and begins to go on some humorous, Woody Allen-like dates. For this movie, Egoyan is in a tender, satiric mood, and Khanjian gives a firepower performance. (Shooting really occurred in the difficult terrains of Armenia.)