A drama following an English department chairman in the midst of a mid-life crisis.
William Henry Devereaux, Jr. is the reluctant chairman of the English department at an underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. A born anarchist, he is trying to come to terms with his philandering father and the dereliction of his youthful promise during a time when just about everything in his life is going wrong.
Based on the 1997 novel 'Straight Man' by Richard Russo.