In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s a young actor on his way from New York to California takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor an actor hes worked with in only one play but to whom hes found himself inexorably if nearly unwittingly attached In a taunt tense 90 minutes three people a black man a white man and a white woman clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and betrayal and their contrasting perceptions of illusion and reality