A reclusive, directionless man approaching middle age begins to assess his life and is unhappy with what he sees. While convalescing after a bump on the head from a bungled mugging, he determines that he must make his life count for something before it is too late. With a newfound sense of purpose, his mental faculties seem to sharpen acutely as he throws himself into a cause to which he becomes obsessed; that which he sees as the only means to...