Nat should be celebrating 30 days of sobriety. Instead, he’s falling apart. Booze suppresses hallucinatory visions of a disfigured face that has haunted him since childhood and drying out means the visions are back with a vengeance. Things get even worse when his partner Adam is diagnosed with cancer. As Adam shares his fears, Nat buries his own to assure him that he is not going to die. Nat works in the kitchen of an eccentric hippie restaurateur named Jean. Shes convinced his visions are a sign of psychic gifts, making him an ideal candidate for learning the healing modality she practices called “Enceladism" and insists Nat read her copy of the occult text. When Nat is banished from ailing Adams bedside by his bigoted mother, he relapses. Hungover and at his wit’s end, he surrenders to Jean’s urgings and participates in his first Enceladic ritual in an attempt to heal Adam remotely. Nat barely survives the ceremony, collapsing into seizures at Jean’s basement altar. Meanwhile Adam is