In a seemingly perfect society that has sprung up in the aftermath of a global cataclysm, the big splash, Dakota, a young man from the midwest five decades in the future navigates the transition from highschool to college. After meeting an eccentric old man who lives by a river on the frontier and talks to a catfish, he begins to grapple with life's big questions and the realization that the world he lives in is not as it seems. With his new mentor and a group of unusual friends and aquaintances he meets at the river, he comes to understand the secret value of nature, curiosity, music, storytelling, and food in an attempt to discover what he truly wants out of life in a place where it seems like life has both everything and nothing to offer.
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