A young construction worker with low impulse control struggles to be a sane citizen, exposing the duplicities of modern society, which crush all that is unique and genuine from the old rural values.

Michael Thomas was born in Raton and reared in Alamogordo, New Mexico, near ground zero of the world's first atom bomb blast. His ambition to become a surfer was difficult to achieve in New Mexico. Today he is an anthropologist, counselor and teacher.