Dr. Nancy Sydnam is a retired family physician who has been practicing in Alaska since the 1950s and has helped bring over 1000 Alaskan babies into the world. Sideways Rain is about her experiences providing medical services out on the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, working with both telemedicine and the physicians assistants and nurse practitioners. Dr. Nancy Sydnam is an emphatic observer of human nature. In journal entries, letters and poems she writes with deep affection about the landscape, and the people she encountered on her hazardous routes. Joining her at this event is Dr. Diddy Hitchins.