Groveling Music

Once a great and intrepid chronicler of his world travels, drummer Francis DiPietro is reduced to cramming his new book into the week his lovely young wife (half his age) goes on vacation to pamper herself at his expense.

Uprooted from his Canadian home in order to follow his wife's wishes, our drummer yearns to recapture the creative voice and vision which was his second nature in years past.

As he attempts to make the round-trip driving journey from the coast of California to a national park in Texas within his meager seven-day time allotment, DiPietro strives to reconcile his promising past with his uncertain future and dispel the fears which gnaw at his brain.

Aging, rueful of his diminishing prowess, he strikes up a bold friendship with a bizarre drifter whose lifestyle holds the key to a freedom he has lost.