editorialist Steve Lopez is at a dead end. The paper concern is in an tumult, his matrimony to a fellow journalist has fall apart and he can’ t wholly retrieve what he love about his job in the first topographic point. so, one day, while walk through Los Angeles’ Skid Row, he see the cryptic draggled fig Nathaniel Ayers, pour his psyche into a two-stringed fiddle. At first, Lopez approach Ayers as merely another narrative thought in a metropolis of million.