Frank Berlingeri

Time Clock Cafe Frank Berlingeri

Imagine having the opportunity to go back in time and question the one person you believe impacted your life more than any other. You know who I mean. The one you think broke your heart and left a black hole where your heart should be. The one that got away. In The Time Clock Café, Salvatore Schiavo finds himself presented with the opportunity to do just that. After forty-five years of silence and an unspectacular life buried in a small town outside San Francisco, Sal is enticed to make the three-thousand-mile journey back to suburban New Jersey by an unexpected call and invitation from the illusive Roxanne. As he waits, seated in the same well-worn, red vinyl booth he once shared with his high school sweetheart, Sal is prepared to confront the woman he holds responsible for the less than stellar outcome of his life, a transient existence crowded with countless careers, failed relationships, and unfulfilled potential. Instead, Sal finds himself face-to-face with age-old demons and, in a single afternoon at The Time Clock Café, unwittingly stumbles upon his own redemption.