Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Mickey Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous.
But after the death of his long-time mistress, Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that takes him to the brink of madness and extinction.