Provincetown, Cape Cod: the last outpost of civilisation, the end of the earth. Failed suicide Leonard English arrives to work as a part-time disc jockey and private investigator. But as winter draws in and Leonard's anguish mounts, his desperate search - for an elusive artist, for love, for some kind of salvation - moves towards an astonishing, apocalyptic finale.
Provincetown, Cape Cod: the last outpost of civilisation, the end of the earth. In the confused aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Leonard English - pursuing a vague vision of redemption and an even vaguer offer of employment - finds himself in a Cape resort populated by religious zealots and promiscuous transvestites.