Fires -- Fiction. -- Casualties

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An African-American coachman employed by the town's physician saves the physician's son from a house fire, but is badly burned and terribly disfigured as a result. The physician vows to care for him, but the rest of the town ostracizes him for it.

East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank c…