A novice assistant stage manager joins the crew of Bad Settlement Theatre Company for their make-or-break season. At the helm of this once-proud company is an aging artistic director hell-bet on mounting the elusive perfect staging of Moby Dick. Mirroring Melville's own unconventional forms, the play swings from soliloquy to encyclopedic investigation to action-adventure story as the young man grows to love the theatrical live, even a those around hi pay the ultimate price for their pursuit of theatre's own great white whale.