Earl O'Donnell sweats in the summer heat haunted by the death of his dog Daisy. Dennis Hayes daydreams of migration, caught in an endless loop from his apartment, to the bakery where he works, to Earl's bar the Idle Hour, to his apartment once more. Evelyn Smith needs to find someone to move her birdbath before winter. Tabitha Jenkins looks for a way off of the sinking ship of public education in Baltimore City while her former student Anna Price tries for success in the form of a graphic novel, Smog Bat: The Horror of the Harbor Tunnel. Idle Hour takes place in the dying waterfront community...