A university English sessional teacher searches for his missing blind pit bull, not entirely aware that his relationship is coming unravelled. Katherine, his girlfriend, pays far more attention to her walk-on role in an alternative theatre production. Fourteen-year-old Becca struggles to get her mother's attention, while her mother provides calorie-wise snacking and fahsion advice and dates Becca's psychologist. Karl fails to control his embarrassing and shameful bad habit at his dead- end telemarketing job. The author weaves together narravtives that speak of people adrift in the conflicting tides of the first decades of the twenty-first century in this darkly funny debut, where characters collide in unexpected ways as they search to create meaning in their lives.