In a new novel, Jonathan Tropper talks about a man experiencing a forty-year-old crisis. Drew Silver, once a famous musician, does not live after a divorce, but goes with the flow. Interrupted by odd jobs, lives in a squalid apartment, communicates mainly with the same losers. Even with her daughter, she almost lost contact, and she informs him about her pregnancy only because she needs to share with someone, and she does not want to upset her mother. And it also turns out that Silver has serious heart problems and an urgent operation is needed. But our hero has almost no desire to live...