After a bitter breakup leaves him seeking, thirtysomething self-styled 'writer' Dustin Rubin flees the monotony of his copywriting job in Los Angeles for the solitude of Iceland to see if he's capable of composing an original thought off the clock. But when his freewheeling roommate shows up and expedites Dustin's journey into the self, D's forced to confront the truth of his talent, and life, head on.