"From the days of their privileged, eccentric English childhood, Jack Rathbone has always enjoyed the adoration of his sister Gin. When both attend St. Martin's School of Art in London, it is a painful wrench for Gin to watch him fall under the spell of Vera Savage, a flamboyant, not entirely clean nor sober artist from Glasgow. Jack and Vera run off to New York and, from a bruised and bereft distance, sister Gin follows the couple's progress to Port...

Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paraniod, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occured after he came to beileve that his father was having an affair.