In There Is A House Here, Alan Zweig tells a “fish out of water”. The fish is himself, an urban Jew. The environment strange to him is the damaged culture of the Inuit in the high Arctic.

Despite a long and frank email relationship with Inuk heavy-metal rocker Lucie Idlout, Alan finds himself unable to truly understand why Canada’s aboriginal people cannot “get over” the injuries of colonialism.

With Lucie as his guide, Alan goes to Nunavut, a place that admittedly frightens him, in the hope of having his skepticism defeated and gaining some answers to bring back to his “equally ignorant countrymen”.