This work is a deeply felt homage to classic television from the author of Meritocracy and The Conference of the Birds . This third installment in the Meritocracy Quartet takes us to Los Angeles in the 1980s, where Louie has built himself a successful career as a writer and producer. His own rise to fame is offset by the slow decline into obscurity of his father, a formerly famed and powerful producer and writer who left Louie and his mother when Louie was very young. As he tries to come to terms with this relationship, Louie must also struggle to keep control of his award-winning drama away from a growing number of opportunists and sensationalists, who would compromise its integrity in the name of the almighty dollar.