A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true authorship of the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nick” is debated.
Struggling to balance her demanding job and managing her daughter Daphne while separating from her husband, hospital researcher Maria enlists her friendly new neighbor, Eve, to babysit. But Maria soon learns that Eve has ulterior motives and will do everything she can to claim Daphne as her own.
Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.
Restless in her marriage, Slip follows Mae through a surreal journey of parallel universes, married to different people, trying to find a way back to her partner, and ultimately, herself.
