Reg, a big-dreaming boy in a small Canadian town, is the star of this collection of related stories. In Sundown, Great Elizabeth, he fights with his stepmother, avoids his father and tolerates his kid sister. Alternately repelled and intrigued by his fellow Sundowners, he thinks, 'I've got to get out of here.' Coming of age, Reg moves to booming, bustling Bayporte and attends huge, impersonal Northup University. After falling in and out of love a few times, he marries a local rich girl and begins a moderately fulfilling career as an actor (both professionally and personally). Despite his new life, Reg struggles with Sundown's perennial question to him: "What's your problem?"