Ernie Marsh, an African-American wildcatter searches the pockets of a coat that he had just been given by a wealthy man that had ended up sharing the alley with him after a hard night of drinking, an alley that Ernie called home. Ernie, sick with lung cancer, had awoken in a stupor and mistakenly pissed on the man, who threw the piss-reeking coat at him. Ernie discovers a paper in the coat; it reveals that he is partner to a major oil discovery. Ernie is rich Ernie wonders if his sons, a Dr. Ken Marsh and Bud Marsh, would ever again let deadbeat dad into their lives. He is yet to discover the plight of his doctor son, a cult leader in Florida, and the existential challenge ahead, in the form of a deceptively innocent bobbing canister off the Keys.
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