A comic tale set in the hamlet of Brood, The Wooden Breeks invokes a world peopled by a large cast of dreamers, schemers and various sets of would-be lovers.
Tormented by the memory of a beautiful young woman he adored and lost, and saddled with the bastard child she left behind as a painful reminder of their doomed romance, a village tinker-turned-poet tries to ease his pain by conjuring up a hilarious and extremely moving theatrical tale, a story made up for the young boy as they sit in front of the dying embers of their hearth.