Loomis is a middle-aged father visiting his son in Southern California. He suffers from depression, which he tried to cure by getting married and raising a family, but the family splintered apart and he was left as sad as before. He picks his son up and they go to a motel, where Loomis drinks and the boy watches television. No matter what they do, including going to the beach and the pool and eating pizza, Loomis feels detached from his son. One night, the alcohol wakes him up and he goes to the pool, where a French woman he’d seen earlier reads his palm. She tells him the truth about himself: he’s a dreamer, and he had high hopes for his life, but everything has disappointed him. Loomis goes back to his room to sleep and he thinks about his son’s birth, specifically how the boy was very sick and it was unclear how things would pan out. Now, those problems have drifted away, but he doesn’t know where to go.