THE FAILURE OF THE WEST is the story of six useless millenials - an avant garde writer, a visual artist slowly going blind, a minimalist composer, an amateur athlete flirting with the pros, a veteran of the horrors of Kandahar, and a man without an ear - all who are pulled by the agonies of life and fate to the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, where they befriend one another, laugh, hurt, fuck, and find for their meaningless lives something that could stand in for meaning: pick it up off the floor, dust it off, call it good enough. Life, death, art, and the end of the world. Cheers.