3-5, single, and uninspired with his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head into a publication, life keeps pulling on Jesse straight back. Jesse jumps at the chance, when his college professor invites him to speak in his retirement dinner. He's prepared for your nostalgia of those dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry conventions. That which he does not see coming is Zibby -- a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens feelings of connection and possibility that Jesse thought he'd buried.