- Gregor is a rudderless mid-20s man with a CV thick with short-lived experiences and thin on worthwhile experience. On his way to a party he meets and bonds with Terry, an articulate magazine editor, weathered by the 1990s. At the party Gregor meets Amber, a transatlantic trustafarian who struggles to mask her liberal g…
- Ostensible puppet master is an affable white-haired gentleman named Joseph Paskin casually approaches the sullen Pierre Blum outside a French casino. Joseph pretends not to recognize the 40-ish all-but-forgotten novelist, though time will soon reveal that there are no coincidences where Paskin's character is concerned.