After a relative dies in Missouri, disenchanted California college semantics professor Adam Gaines travels East to attend the funeral, finds a summer job there, falls in love, and sees his life changing before his eyes.

A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time he meets a girl and falls in love, then faces an important decision about the direction of his life.—frankfob2@yahoo.com