During the summer before his final year at Columbia University, Sam Steele was lucky enough to have gotten stoned, which nearly caused him to jump to his death off of a desert cliff. He did not jump. But he did shatter. Psychologically broken, Sam does his best to put himself back together. While his brother flirts with domestic life-wife, children, and a job-Sam's relationship with his girlfriend ends, he is involved in a sex-scandal with a crazy professor/poet, he ditches old 'friends' for actual ones, performs at a concert, gaining rock-star status on campus. But will this be enough? And can Sam find that in life which will bring him happiness?