In June 1969, Victor Sinclare leaves conservative Cincinnati, Ohio, to join a former high school friend for a summer job in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Victor is 1-A in the Draft, flunking out of college, reeling from the news that a fraternity brother has been killed in Vietnam, and running from the inevitable disappointment he is about to be to his parents.
Victor is habitually stoned, drinking too much, frustrated at sex, tormented by dreams and feeling smothered by his hometown.
He is bewilder.