In financial crisis a man looks back to the life of his grandfather forlessons about how to accept and overcome his problems. <strong>Abbeville</strong>sweeps t... » 

In financial crisis a man looks back to the life of his grandfather forlessons about how to accept and overcome his problems. Abbevillesweeps throughthe history of the late 19th through the early 21st century American amongloggers stripping the North Woods bare at the Worlds Columbian Exposition of1893 with French soldiers at the Battle of Verdun into the abyss of theDepression and finally toward the new Millenniums own nightmares. At the sametime it examines life at it most intimate. How can one hold onto meaning amidstthe brutally indifferent cycles of was and peace flood and drought boom andbust life and death? «