Swiv begins writing a letter to her absent father, explaining why she was expelled from school for fighting.

Grandma arrives to help care for Swiv and heavily pregnant Mom while Dad is absent.

Grandma and Swiv spell out 'REBEL STRONGHOLD' on the roof using Mom's books for Jay Gatsby to see.

Grandma and her elderly friends meet at a pub and agree to say their goodbyes while they still can.

Grandma tells Swiv that Mom fears dying by suicide because her father and sister both died that way.

Grandma decides she wants to travel to Fresno, California, to visit relatives and former community members.

Swiv and Grandma travel to the airport and board their flight to California.

Grandma tells Swiv the full truth about Mom's traumatic experiences in Albania and the family's history of suicide.

Grandma dances with excitement at a nursing home visit, falls, breaks her arm, and loses a tooth.

Lou and Ken want to take Grandma to a hospital, but she refuses and insists on flying back to Toronto.

Grandma is admitted to the hospital upon returning to Toronto and is quickly moved to the ICU.

Mom goes into labor at the same time Grandma is transferred to the ICU.

Gord is finally born while Grandma lies in the ICU; Swiv runs back and forth between the two rooms.

Swiv secretly carries newborn Gord to the ICU and places the baby on Grandma's chest, waking her.

Grandma passes away, and Swiv finishes her letter noting that three people went into the hospital and three came out.

Nine-year-old Swiv writes a letter to her absent father while caring for her pregnant, emotionally fragile Mom and aging Grandma in their threatened Toronto home. As the household struggles under emotional and financial strain, Grandma decides to make a trip to Fresno, California, to reconnect with relatives and old friends from her former Mennonite community. During the trip, Grandma falls and injures herself at a nursing home, setting off a chain of events that brings the family to a crisis point. Upon returning to Toronto, Grandma is rushed to the ICU just as Mom goes into labor with baby Gord. Swiv runs between the two hospital rooms until Gord is born, then secretly carries the baby to Grandma's bedside for a final reunion. Grandma passes away surrounded by her family, and Swiv closes her long letter to her father, marking the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.

The headline events driving Fight Night from beginning to end.

Grandma conducts unconventional lessons for Swiv including 'Editorial Meeting,' 'Poached Egg,' and a mortality-based math class.

While helping Mom rehearse play lines, Grandma tells the story of undressing before an East German soldier at the Berlin Wall.

Mom throws a tantrum, hurling objects around the house and tearing apart a necklace Dad gave her.

Grandma and Swiv stop at a nearby restaurant after a security guard refuses to let Grandma use the office bathroom.

In 'Ancient History' class, Grandma tells Swiv about growing up as one of 14 children and being sent to Nebraska as a maid.

Mom returns home upset after learning that her play may be canceled due to its political content and funding cuts.

Mom's letter to Gord unexpectedly becomes a disjointed first-person account of being forcibly hospitalized during the Albania film shoot.

Swiv throws clothespins into a bucket, telling herself Dad will return if she makes every shot — she misses them all.

Mom causes hostility on the bus to the salon, and the group ends up disembarking early in front of a strip club.

The wheelchair carrying Grandma flies out of control in the San Francisco airport and crashes into a shop display.

Swiv and Grandma arrive in Fresno, where Grandma's nephews Lou and Ken turn out to be much older than Swiv expected.

A group of teenagers at a stoplight see Swiv's predicament after Grandma's fall and help get Grandma safely back to Ken's house.

Jay Gatsby interrupts the family's dinner and is firmly refused again when he asks to buy the house.

Mom, Swiv, Grandma, and newborn Gord all rest together in the same hospital bed for a brief time.

Swiv finds one of Grandma's old pills on the floor after returning home and falls to her knees.

While the main plot follows Grandma's decline and Gord's birth, a rich layer of smaller events gives the story its humor, warmth, and emotional depth. Grandma's eccentric daily lessons, Mom's emotional outbursts, and Swiv's quiet acts of domestic care reveal the dynamics of a household held together by love and stubbornness. Mom's letter to her unborn child unexpectedly opens into a raw confession about her traumas, while Swiv's private clothespin game reveals her grief over her father's disappearance. The California trip introduces Lou, Ken, and the wider network of Grandma's surviving community, bringing both comedy and unexpected tenderness. These secondary events accumulate into a portrait of three generations of women navigating grief, joy, and the daily labor of keeping each other alive.

The quieter scenes and overlooked moments that give the story its texture.

Grandma discovers Swiv has been expelled for fighting; schoolmates had mocked Swiv by claiming her father is a tortured communist.

Swiv finds Grandma lying on the kitchen floor after a fall; Grandma insists she is fine and did not want to wake anyone.

Grandma tells Swiv about Willit Braun, the authoritarian religious leader who controlled their village and stamped out every joy.

Grandma shows Swiv a photo album containing pictures of deceased relatives taken after their deaths, as photographs were rare.

Mom leaves Swiv an apologetic note about her failings as a mother, causing Swiv to fear Mom is contemplating suicide.

Mom's director interrupts her walk with Swiv; Mom later claims the director touched her inappropriately at rehearsal and tried to blacklist her.

During 'Editorial Meeting,' Grandma reads her letter to Gord aloud, promising the baby she will be ready for them.

Grandma talks Swiv into buying plane tickets to Fresno, and Mom agrees that Swiv should accompany her on the trip.

On the stalled plane, Swiv confesses to Grandma that she fears everyone around her will die and she will be left alone.

Grandma reveals that Swiv's father left after becoming convinced that Gord was the result of Mom's affair in Albania.

The group sails on Ken's boat but cuts the trip short when Grandma urgently needs a bathroom due to her medication.

Grandma reconnects with old friends at the nursing home, speaking to them entirely in her secret language that Swiv cannot understand.

After Grandma's fall at the nursing home, Swiv attempts to drive them both back to Ken's house but cannot manage the task.

Grandma has written a note refusing resuscitation; Swiv begs her to fight as hospital staff prepare to take her into care.

Mom runs to the ICU after discovering Gord is missing and finds Swiv, Grandma, and the newborn together.

Beneath the daily rhythms of Fight Night lies a series of revelations that shift how both Swiv and the reader understand the family's situation. Swiv gradually uncovers the full weight of her family's history — Grandma's past repression under Willit Braun, Mom's breakdown in Albania, and the real reason her father disappeared. Each discovery adds urgency to Swiv's role as the family's reluctant keeper of memory and caretaker of everyone around her. The trip to California forces Swiv to voice her deepest fears out loud, and Grandma responds with a candor she has withheld until now. The story's final turning point arrives when Grandma chooses not to fight for her own survival, even as Swiv begs her to, and the simultaneous arrival of newborn Gord gives the family a reason to carry on.