When the buffet where Zeke’s mom works closes down, he’s forced to deal with the advances of a rich regular, George, who is weirdly obsessed with becoming his dad. George works in corporate real estate, developing housing that is uglier than anyone deserves. He “generously” offers to take Zeke under his wing and show him how hard work could take him to another level. But what George is really trying to do is impose his ideological vision of the American 20th century, which he sees as a flawless cultural form everyone should work to reproduce. Problem is... Zeke isn’t buying it. Squarely in Gen Z, he simply isn’t moved by those ideas. Zeke only hardens, and receiving no validation from him, George unravels and grows increasingly deranged, anxious he won’t be able to prove his value to his nebulous overlords if he fails to take on a son.