Matthew Lotti

Chateaubriand Or, Tales of Performance in the United States Matthew Lotti

This is a story of several friends in their twenties - Marcel, Josef, Cameron and Amelia - looking to make a change in their highly diversified lives and decide to take a trip in a fish truck across the country, starting in Pennsylvania and ending up in California, with many stops along the way. As they travel, they openly share stories from their past about love, defeat, sexual encounters and embarrassments while they are on their way to new beginnings. Marcel is the most troubled of all of them - having been institutionalized for many years - and acts as their unlikely tour guide and confidant. Inspired by Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales as well as road movies, it's a celebration of freedom and burgeoning maturity.