Fleeing from a failed relationship and his professor father's pressures, college graduate Lewis Chopik returns home to find that both his mother's New Age lifestyle and his bipolar brother's antics have become more extreme.

"The city of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. However, the dealers at The Heart of America Antique Mall are too preoccupied by their own neurotic compulsions to take much notice. Postcards, perfume bottles, Barbies, vinyl records, kitschy neon beer signs--they collect and sell it all. Rather than focus on Lindy, this colorful cast of characters is consumed by another drama: the impending...