Dalton Lewis, a brilliant writer, fights like hell to create art - but a catastrophe intervenes. Dalton Lewis starts in middle school, writing poems about fantasy realms and speeches about the stupidity of his homework assignments. In high school he joins the award-winning school paper and creates legendary role-playing adventures. At college he studies at the prestigious Iowa English program. As he progresses and becomes an adult and a real artist, though, his mind he starts to pace angrily, answer the phone when it isn't even on, and get fired from job after job. He breaks down and ends up unable to communicate with the outside world. This is an autobiographical look at life with mental illness - written by Daniel Trump, University of Iowa grad and high-functioning schizophrenic.