Anand Rao, a twenty-something engineer employed by the City of New York recollects his past trauma and ordeals as a student at Pratt Institute - where he initially was an Industrial Design major in the Art & Design school. The scenes take place both in the protagonist's present in 1992 - his "daily grind" as a City employee - and flashbacks to 1985 when he recounts his story to his friend and work colleague Shirley Ghosht - after a night spent in a Manhattan nightclub while recuperating in her apartment in the wee hours of a Saturday morning.
