Valerie Martin re-creates the seamy theater world of 1970’s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage was the latest craze. Edward Day, a talented and ambitious young actor, finds his life forever altered during a weekend party on the New Jersey shore. There he seduces the delicious Madeleine Delavergne and is saved from drowning by the mysterious Guy Margate, who becomes Edward’s rival on stage and off.
And so, at a time when actors flocked to the great method teachers to hone the art of the “truthful” performance, Edward discovers that truth – in theater and in life – is ever elusive and never inert.