Meredith "Merry" Mann is an aging journeyman, a member of the core acting company at a leading American regional theater. He's at the top of his game. Women, kids and critics adore him. Portland Repertory wants to extend his contract. But Mann is cracking up. His mind plays horrific tricks onstage. After hours, he goes to a dive-bar that isn't there, sees murders that don't happen and falls for a mystifying young woman who offers him a tragic choice of life or death. Mann teaches acting to make ends meet. His prized pupil is an astonishing, yet profoundly troubled young actress on the cusp of...