David's life is well-sorted. A professor of English Literature, he is chasing the ever-elusive bestseller of his dreams in his spare waking moments while living a private life that many men and their girlfriends would only choose to fantasize. We meet David when tragedy tosses him into an angry paralysis of existence. Poised to lose more than he already has, David desperately seeks to escape what happened. Eventually, he must somehow stem the emotional bleakness poisoning him in order to re-establish a balance in his life. When asked to consider an unconventional approach to striking that balance, David embarks on a journey he could not have predicted. What happens when a dominant man submits?