Inspired by a quote from the I Ching which refers to how we respond to tragedy, Some Blow Flutes is the story of Costas Frangoulis, an elderly shoe repair man deeply set in his ways and refusing to admit that his wife Elena is beginning to suffer the effects of dementia. His life is altered when Sandra, a professional organizer who cannot begin to organize her own life, enters his shop. His teenage granddaughter Leah who cares for her grandmother is best friends with Sandra’s estranged daughter Marijke. Marijke is fourteen and pregnant. An unlikely friendship between Costas and Sandra and a chance meeting between Elena and Marijke turn into an unravelling of past lives and hidden grievances which play out with unexpected results.