Ron Nyswaner, Academy Award-nominated scriptwriter of Philadelphia, delivers a beautiful and very honest memoir on the devastating effect of passionate love. On a trip to Los Angeles, Ron meets and falls for world-weary Johann, a Latin-quoting, leather-clad hustler from Germany. In the next year, Johann will teach him many things: how to make a crack pipe out of a soda can, how to lose onself utterly in passion, how to come down from a crystal binge, and how to keep living when everything you've been living for is gone.