After an eager and flattering young admirer (Edmund Donovan) appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
Intoxicated by the attention—and by the alluring presence of Gloria, the group’s ‘tragic heroine’ (a sinuous, Kurt Weill–crooning Greta Lee, Past Lives) – Saxberger gradually reckons with the authenticity of his newfound poetic circle.