Dan Gallagher is an obsessively religious recovering alcoholic who is also a struggling artist. "Allison Jolley" follows his musings, doubts, friendships, misadventures and epiphanies -- in prose, poems, letters, dialogues, and art -- as he mourns two failed relationships, and slowly falls in love with Allison, a close friend, realizing along the way that love is not what he expected. Dan struggles to connect with his own better self, and with his kindred spirit Allison, whose light-hearted, playful nature ultimately changes his perspectives of what friendship, belief, and love can be.