The movie's set in the big old home of this hard-boiled city, not in a real home. The story is there to be told: In 1844, when no one was home, two slumbering drow canoes strolled up in the gale and rained over all the vista. It was an unspeakable inferno. A plume of smog hovered in the air. This would have been 10 in the morning.

In many ways, it