Set in the sub-suburbs, where trailer park and white-flight suburb rub elbows, this story rollicks across decades, from the 1980’s to the present. An addled man tries to escape the shadow of his genius but despairing father only to find himself subjected to the same temptations to find the answers to life in a radio device designed to talk to angels or the dead. A fat, Faustian German opera.

In 1939, an eccentric millionaire returns to his small town Oklahoma home on the eve of rural electrification project. Is he there to reform his life, or to dredge up old wounds before the town can move into a bright future, figuratively sealing its past beneath beneath a new man-made lake?