Among the denizens of Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace at the foot of Embarcadero, San Franscisco circa 1939 are Joe, a melancholy regular, and his friend Tom, an eager-to-please disciple of Joe's philosophies who carries a torch for Kitty Duval, a fragile streetwalker. Kit Carson, an old 'Indian fighter' ("no foundation, all the way around"), the mysterious Mary L., and Harry the Hoofer, are just a few of this cross-section of humanity who, over three acts, play out Saroyan's arguments on life, love and the follies and future of mankind.

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