Drum has lost almost everything. His mother died when he was three, and his father met with an accident when he was 17. He parlays his personal tragedy into a successful career as a criminal photojournalist for a daily paper. Drum reports on the misery of society until he is unable stop thinking about his role in creating a lurid commodity. Meeting the critical college student Ari brings his forgotten traumas to the surface, and forces a violent enlightenment before Drum heads out to find his new life.