Upon being diagnosed with a terminal illness, an ornery middle-aged loner decides to end his life in the most gallant way possible in order to infuse a measure of "meaning" into his otherwise wasted life. His subsequent hyperreal meta-journey takes him all around the world and down some incredibly bizarre paths as the endeavor proves to be much more difficult than he'd anticipated. With the clock ticking, he grows increasingly desperate to achieve his goal of dying the perfect death-the odds of his demise turning out just as pointless as his existence getting better with each passing moment...
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