Stephen Cryer is a carefree young man who has just graduated from high school and is beginning to feel the freedom of living away from home. Like so many other young people, he is drawn to the partying lifestyle he and his friends are beginning to enjoy too much. Stephen has a girlfriend and a good relationship with his father, and he doesn't seem to have any worries in his life. That is until he meets an unusual man who is known to everyone by the name of H.
Stephen tries hard to be successful in his classes at college but is constantly allowing himself to be distracted by the nightlife he thoroughly enjoys. During a break from college, Stephen goes home for Thanksgiving and finds out he has to face the demons that remained behind with his father and his brothers.
Upon his return from break, Stephen falls deeper and deeper into an unhealthy lifestyle of going out night after night. His life begins to unravel in ways he could not possibly have anticipated. All the while, H remains his close companion during Stephen's descent into a madness of his own making.