Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and have remained close friends ever since. While Dark was a homebody with a penchant for letter writing and photography, supporting himself with odd jobs—dogcatcher, deli worker—Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and an Academy Award–nominated actor. Now in their late sixties and trying to compile their many decades of correspondence into a book, the two best friends are reminded of all that they have gone through over the years. The letters force them to look into the past and confront the choices that they have made, both good and bad.