Greed and guilt, wantonness and woe. Daniel Heffernan is being torn apart by monolithic forces present inside of him. In a doomed attempt to outrun them, he goes abroad to teach English and search for any form of erotic contact he can find. Sex, pornography, quantum physics, learning, drugs, language, a new religion, drink and constant, stalking avarice not to mention one of the most dreadful cases ever of Hangover Horn, basically the pillars of our own universe, the things that keep the whole place going, are literally tearing him asunder in the battleground that is his own mind. Poor Daniel has decided to go to war with his own brain - he doesn't stand a chance.