A youth from a rural area of the Midwest moves (or imagines he moves) to Los Angeles with vague hopes and a fascination with the West and Hollywood. His daydream / reality parallels a visual contrast between stark urbanity and Midwestern farm country. He imagines himself becoming an actor in Hollywood and begins the process of finding work as an 'extra.' A brief meditation on the deification of celebrity and pervasive insistence on its relevance in American culture and a panegyric to the beauty of 'rural' existence far from, though still affected by, the film industry or at least the sensationalism surrounding it. The story of a single day's imaginings or a 'there and back again' account of the desire to matter.