Metropotamia, Vol. 1

The young painter Jack Rawlins falls from a balcony during a drug-induced psychosis that precipitated the revelation of a secret reality. The young photographer Malorie Swanberg chances upon the rush-hour collapse of a highway bridge that she receives as an answer to her thoughtless wish. For the former it inspires an eventual masterpiece, and for the latter it launches an unexpected career. Together they move from the Midwest to the West Coast: four years pass before Jack returns home alone and their old friends learn what happened to them. Struggling with what losses he accrued in those intervening years, Jack does his best nonetheless to account for his absence to his erstwhile associates through the fulfillment of his own forgotten promise.