Seths graphic novel tells the story of George Sprott, the host of a long-running and unaccountably popular Canadian television programme, Northern Hi-Lights, in which he shows old films of the Arctic, while rambling on in a monotone voice about Eskimos or seal hunts or snowstorms and often falling asleep on-air. On the surface George seems a charming, foolish, old man, but as we come to know him, piece by piece, in a series ofinterviews, flashbacks and personal reminiscences a more complex picture emerges.