Hair is falling out in places Chip Davis never expected. There's a microscopic layer of fat covering his six-pack. His wife is peaking while he's on the downslide, his kids want to create their own family compound, and his oldest son heads off to We Don't Know Where; fifty is looming on the horizon and Chip resists it with as much force as a man who has to get up five times a night can...until he realizes what he fears most isn't middle age, but the medical merry-go-round he suddenly finds himself riding.