Outrageously outspoken and wildly unpredictable, Dick Dunster is the hero - or villain - in a drama of his own making. Philip Progmire is less heroic. He wants a quiet life with his wife Bethany and his job in the accounts department of the TV company Megapolis. But Dunster, his childhood friend and adversary, dogs his adult life, making him face cruel facts: his lack of acting talent, his wife's infidelity and the possible. involvement of his boss in one of the secret war crimes of the last World War.