At their mother's memorial service, two estranged brothers start to piece together a sense of who she was from the stories she told them as children, and as adults. Some were hilarious, some terrifying and some downright confusing. Did they help the brothers in their life path, or did they make the forest darker and the way less clear? Was their mother to be found in her yarns, like the old woman spinning in her gingerbread cottage, or were they a smokescreen, an enchanted mist that took you to strange parts and left you thrilled but faintly bewildered. Untangling the web that she spun might bring them redemption and reconciliation, or it may shatter their uneasy peace for ever.