Tim excels at running, bodybuilding and academics and has made himself an expert on an obscure Shakespearean play. He supports himself entirely on his salary as a bike messenger. He and his two 20-year-old housemates search for sex, love, and a place in the American economic system. But Tim's passion for Eileen, a beautiful graduate student, is distorted by the aftereffects of a wrenching betrayal in his past.