Robert McNamara teaches art history to disinterested undergrads at Santa Lucretia University on the California coast. Standing at the precipice of a mid-life crisis - stagnant career, crumbling marriage, and haunted by fading memories of his dead brother - McNamara goes out for long runs where he can lose himself in the mysteries and intrigues of ethnic neighborhoods. But as he begins to explore the new world of characters that unfolds before him,...