This is a collection of short fiction, nine finely crafted stories about young men finding their places in the world. Each story tells of a moment in life when their worlds begin to shift: the boy who breaks into a gay man's home to see how he lives; the shy teenager who tries to starve himself away; the tennis tutor who learns too much about the family for whom he works; the strange boy named Chuck Paa who finds employment about the dying. And the title story, about an unemployed actor at the end of his youth whose life in Southern California is filled by delusion and a perpetual search for love.
