"He was the tortured genius, treated with delicacy, and he pissed me off."

David Findley drinks himself into a stupor daily, launches scripts out of his typewriter at a rate of 2-3 per day, and writes vanguard television for public consumers and Hollywood producers who could never understand his artistry. His magnum opus and current project is Acres of Perhaps, a show whose premise is ambiguous and whose characters are constantly changing, in something of a cross between the Twilight Zone and a sci-fi Seinfeld.

His name also is also actually Leroy, which comes to pass when his loving wife Melody tries to pull him from Hollywood, back to the quaint North Carolina home they once knew. After she arrives, David reveals to narrator Barry and sidekick Hugh that he left home following a near-fatal encounter with rogue moonshine. After drinking liquor homebrewed by some rustic neighbors, David beat his wife before falling into the hole of a tree stump for what he claims to be hours. After regaining consciousness, David was back at home, suffering from a nonstop series of lifelike dreams, unable to distinguish between fiction and reality. David, claiming that the stump's magical property had transformed him, charted out west, converting his dreams into a hit television show.

Barry, who has long thought that David's art is more akin to inexplicable rambling, decides to help Melody coax David back to the holler by luring a drunken David onto a set in which he 'falls back' through the tree stump that sent him there originally.