East of Euclid is a labyrinthine story of lust, greed and revenge. Villosh is a small-time Russian gambler hiding from the KGB in a dreary perogie factory in Winnipeg’s North End in 1972. He dreams of rolling the dice in Atlantic City but needs a lot of money to make the move. So, he concocts a scheme to kidnap Finnish hockey star Veli-Pekka Kaurismäki that steadily goes awry. The story is told in film noir style by Natalia, an eager Tribune gossip columnist who finds herself caught in an intricate love triangle that involves Villosh, perogie-factory worker Alexandria, and Valeri, the newspaper’s ace photographer with whom Natalia is in love.