Two brothers must make a grisly sacrifice in order to break free from their eastern Long Island home. A Colorado realtor pursues ever bigger sales in the rarified air of Rocky Mountain ski country. A patchwork gang of high school dropouts colonize, first, the trees of Manhattan's parks, then its bridges, not falling but ascending through the cracks.
The stories of Night Life, feature an array of characters seeking release--from the places that contain them, from each other, at times from gravity itself. Some fair better, some worse, but all flare into life, glowing embers before the curtain of night.