A young father, husband and aspiring writer, Lee Oswald, struggles to find meaning in his life...
It's recession time in America, the now, and Lee Oswald is finding it difficult to keep his life together. Things between Lee and his wife, Claire, haven't been up to snuff lately. She's working part time at the hair salon, and he's just landed a new job as a security guard. They have a son named Jimmy, just five years old, who loves watching Barney for hours on end, keeping Lee awake during the days. After Lee's father died, his mother developed mental illness, eventually remarried, and moved to Beverly Hills with her new spouse. Thus Edison, Lee's father-in-law. Edison is truly Lee's only ally, it seems, though there is also his childhood friend, Joe, who mysteriously comes back to town from a life on the road, bringing along with him an addiction to methamphetimines and a newly adopted propensity for violence. And then there is the perverse Doctor, one Vernone Sneebly, who works nights at the research facility, where Lee makes his rounds at night, hoping to break through his boredom and define his life.