7 years after his graduation from high school, the narrator -only known as "G"- looks back on a better time during his teens. Spending his days drinking and listening to smooth jazz with his coworker at the office; G reflects on time lost, and the friends that have gone with it. A Waltz in the Sea is a story of a young man's coming of age, and his essence of boredom and melancholy, shadowed by the existentialism that is growing up in the 21st century.