Glasgow, 1890. Andrew Baird calls upon Flora McNeil to settle a debt owed by her late husband. It is a bank holiday, however: no money! Baird is determined and refuses to leave; Flora has to resort to violence. Pistols are brought out for a duel; but first, Baird must teach her to shoot...1 woman, 2 men

This is the story of the longest surviving bone marrow transplant patient for leukemia in Canada, and second in the world. Bernard Gotlieb recounts, with levity and candor, his experiences of this procedure, which in 1979 was still experimental.