Revealing, insightful, truthful...Anamosa, Iowa could be any small town in America. Stories, within a story, is about growing up in the mindset of a small parochial mid-western town circa the 60s and 70s. The hurts, insults, inequalities and mean-spiritedness, along with the peacefulness and joy of rural life in eastern Iowa, are told through the eyes of an old man looking over the waters of time rolling in upon themselves.