Charles Ripley has become deadened from an unappreciative work-life, an uncooperative marriage, and a life that has been wholly condemned by the same day-to-day drudgery. With the American Dream in hand, no one told him that once the 401-K was max'd, life can get pretty routine. Boredom makes him vulnerable, hot days in the cul de sac - unenthused - and the neighborhood barbeques, all too predictable. That is until he befriends Ruskin Marsh, and soon two women both had met at the local steakhouse are tumbling off a wet cliff by way of Ruskin's impatience. Now on the other side of a point-of-no-return, the man in the hole sees little light above - but, maybe just enough before he gets buried alive.