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"The misery and greatness of this world: It offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it." Albert Camus Jaime is a young man who is being haunted by the demon of his childhood visitations. Ezra washes dishes at the restaurant where Jaime has just been hired on and is the medium through which the demon has returned to finish his work. The dishwasher has convinced Jaime that life is meaningless, and the only prescription for his despondency is suicide. But he never counted on Jaime falling in love with Lisa, and neither did Jaime. Now Jaime's confronted with this existential dilemma, that even if the dishwasher's right, and life is in fact meaningless, can it still be worth living? And for Jaime, will love be the reason? Lisa fled the Southwest and from an abusive father only to land into the hands of Raymond, a vile serpent. Her life intersects with Jaime's in this Appalachian border town, and their love springs unexpectedly and unknowingly for one another. When they become separated, all seems lost until Nona, the fate who spins the thread of life and whom Lisa remembers from her childhood storybook steps in, while Jaime decides to take the pill. The race is on, but who will get to the garage first? Mary lives in the homeless camp that's hidden in the trees and envelopes the strand of a small stream that runs through town. She escaped the racial discrimination of the Deep South and traveled North until she reached these foothills w