In Everlasting Pine a famed composer is having problems with his wife Shes still vital and alive seeking occasional sexual congress from a new age yoga guru He on the other hand is moody and temperamental lost in a world of ritualistic habits and dark obsessions When he is commissioned by a friend to write a requiem for his dead father the same old feelings flare up When the cuckold learns of the price his problems have wrought he sees only one violent way out