theatre manager Caden Cotard is mount a new drama. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theatre in Schenectady, N.Y., is look bleak. His married woman Adele has leave him to prosecute her picture in German capital, take their immature girl Olive with her. His healer, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plug her best-seller than she is at rede him. A new human relationship with the alluringly blunt hazel tree has prematurely run aground.