David Daniel

When writer Tom Knowles returns from California to the Massachusetts town where he grew up, to help sell the family house and move his widowed mother, he finds his high school is having its 30th reunion. Without much interest, he attends. He encounters his old friend "Brain" Mclain, still living up to his nickname. Brain has designed a holographic show, made from old films of the pre-graduation dance they had.

The show is cut short by a fierce electric storm, but Tom has already had enough of the old days and the present lives of his classmates. Although he is eager to get back to Hollywood where he has been pitching a new screenplay, he becomes more and more involved, not only with the lives of his former friends, but in the town itself.

In a parallel narrative, TK, as Tom was known in high school, struggles with the crises of adolescence: his dying father, his understanding high school teacher, and his contribution to the family by digging clams on the south shore of Boston. However, something strange seems determined to force him to confront past and present, and ultimately Tom must choose where he will find his reality--in Hollywood, or in the past.