Landing a job at an international press agency in Washington has enabled the young Albert Nostran to flee his manic father and the existential boredom that sets in the northeastern provinces as the year draws to a close, but stability and the ideal (or semi-ideal or even semi-semi-ideal) woman are goals that remain frustratingly out of reach. His heart sinks when the charming Jillian informs him that she lives in Richmond, only two and a half hours...