New York City
Trapped in a labyrinth of public education, George finds himself in a world that has been reduced to rubble. As his wife pleads with him to give up his futile quest for knowledge and come home, and as his uncle entangles him in a web of dead-end American dream schemes, time begins to accelerate at a dizzying pace. But George can only dig–sifting, often quite literally, through a life-sized crater in the center of his world. A Tack of an American Conscience follows an American everyman’s life-long search for meaning in his country’s fabricated history.