Jesus Christ, Alicia, how could you do this to me? I thought. And how the hell did she get away with it for so long? Five years… I felt inescapably immune to complex emotion. I had been angry for a long time before this night, but this was a different anger. I looked down at the floor, analyzing every dark thread in the carpet, words such as infidelity and revenge hissing in my mind like water poured over a coal fire. This night was fucked. This life was fucked. Chi la fa l’aspetti, I thought, not knowing why. Recovering alcholic Chandler Yoning and his three alcoholic buddies willingly relapse in each other's company, and in process discover not only are their love lives inescapably linked, but that their violent tendencies are quickly spiraling out of control.