Edward Tilman wants to write a novel about a filmmaker, but he doesn't know enough about making movies. His research launches him on a creative adventure that strains his family bonds, stalls his career and lures him to other countries--toting a book, a camera and a laptop computer.

Tom Abray's short story collection, Pollen, was nominated for the Quebec Writers' Federation Fiction Award, as well as the Relit Award. In The Montreal Review of Books, Cecilia Keating wrote that Abray's novel Where I Wanted to Be "consistently teeters on the edge of a grand dénouement". This precarious edge runs like an existential faultline beneath the feet of Abray's characters.