The nameless narrator, referred to only as “Nobody”,  is haunted by his childhood and the sound of his mother’s suicide from the next room, along with his inaction following the gunshot. After coming out of his shell for the Holy Spirit, in the form of a levitating itinerant, his romantic relationship dissolves like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Left with nothing, Nobody finds peace and dreams of death, only to be informed by a carpenter building a whale that he cannot die until he knows himself. 

This directive inspires a modern-day odyssey populated by a parade of literary, religious, and mythological figures, from a harpoon-wielding Eve and transgender Sisyphus to the foul-mouthed waitress, St. Augustine, the Karamazov family, and Nietzsche himself. In the end, Nobody finds the courage to face his trauma and reconcile with himself–but at a cost. Why must the death of his projections also lead to the death of him?