Fifth Business

Ramsay is a man returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I. He was decorated with the Victoria Cross, and it seemed as if he would be caught in a no-mans land where memory, history, and myth collide. As he tells his story, it seems that from boyhood, he had exerted perhaps a mystical influence on those around him. His seemingly innocent involvement in such innocuous events as throwing a snowball or teaching card tricks to a small boy ended up not being innocent or innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.