An often hilarious, sometimes poignant, story of the trials, joys, and dreams of Winnipeg film animator Ed Ackerman, a modern day composite of Don Quixote, Peter Pan, Chaplin's Tramp, the biblical Job and Sisyphus of Greek mythology, as Ackerman, amongst many other labours, tries to resurrect a twenty five year old film animation project designed to help children spell, attempts with Little money to turn three derelict houses into a film production studio which would also serve as an inheritance for his three children and runs for Parliament and then for Mayor in an effort to stop the threatened demolition of his dilapidated properties by the City of Winnipeg.