A blacksmith and an amateur gunslinger embark on journey through the west together but soon separate and have surreal experiences of their own.

An escaped mental patient from an asylum for the criminally insane, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman’s rural home.

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens…