The bleary-eyed protagonist, Jon, has inherited a vacated strip mall which he uses as a site of shifting, uncertain ambitions that don’t seem to go anywhere.

Literary theorist and political philosopher Michael Hardt makes a visit as a blue jay to talk work, love, and malls with Jon whose indolence (or “creative block,” as he’ll have it) prevents him from any of the real political organizing this winged Hardt proposes. After all, it’s hard to think critically about labor when you aren’t doing much of it.