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Lost in the mundane rhythm of a suburban teaching life, a former English teacher yearns for more. Seeking passion and a new direction, he ventures to the contradictory landscape of Los Angeles. There, he stumbles upon a dilapidated building housing 'The Surf, Literary Review,' and a chance encounter with its eccentric inhabitants sets him on an unexpected path into the city's hidden literary underbelly and the complexities of human ambition.