A Beginner's Guide to Electricity

<p>A modern psychedelic Tom Sawyer-type named Radkin runs away from home to seek his muse by writing a book just like he would build a fireplace a sturdy structure in which to conjure a flickering warmth to enchant a lady. </p><p></p><p>It takes a while. </p><p>He crisscrosses Appalachia in an Econoline van with a steam engine-styled band volunteers at a turtle preserve in the Caribbean and is hired as night watchmen at a veterinary hospital in Vermont where he grows pot in an adjacent forest. He also gives piano lessons to a retired mafioso psychiatrist Dr. Zuckerman who has hired a mercenary lawyer- and his young associate- to help him build a state-of-the-art nursing home in the same forest where Radkin grows his crop. </p><p></p><p>When a bumbling DEA agent is assigned to investigate a suspicious thermal image suggesting a patch of illegal cannabis both Radkin and his piano student find themselves in a bind...</p>