After a 25 year old man in Manhattan losses his job, he cashes in his 401k and buys a one way plane ticket to Europe. He leaves behind his apt and girlfriend and wanders in a disillusioned self-destructive daze.Ethan is at the end of his rope at a dead end job in Manhattan, and life with his roommates and girlfriend. He recalls his last few years at his first real job after college; the sex and the superficial games and leaves it all behind buying a one way ticket to Vienna.Along the way he wanders from city to city & hostels, meets some friends, girls, and a new travel companion Mathias: and falls in love with a girl, and is confronted by his girlfriend in Prague. He tries to piece together meaning, numb wanting to feel, Attempting to reconcile what he was taught to what he sees; searching for what's real in the post modern world.The voice of the millennial generation; a modern Don Draper with malt liquor, a Bukowski-esque experience.
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