In each of the four novellas, an artist moves to San Francisco to experience its storied bohemian life.
A poet turned cab driver seeks the elusive muse that will save his soul and marriage.
A young painter is seduced by an idealistic friend to start an underground journal only to find himself in a risky romantic triangle.
An eccentric writer, stricken with hypergraphia, transcribes his daily existence into a living novel, blurring the boundaries of reality and fiction.
And a surrealist travel.