Back in the '70s, SoHo resident Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) got a book of poetry published... and after it was summarily ignored, he chucked his literary aspirations for a postal clerk's quiet neighborhood life. Now, a clique of well-off young Manhattanite poseurs have deemed him ripe for rediscovery-and their would-be elder statesman's got no idea how to deal with their adulation.