In a dingy Chicago bar where Prohibition is merely a word and whiskey still flows freely, young poet Alfred Trever steps into a world his mother - a respected poetess - tried so hard to shield him from. Driven by fascination with decadent poetry and desire to experience "life as it is," he encounters a mysterious vagrant known as "Old Bugs" - a man who seems to hide a shocking past behind his facade of destitution and alcoholism. When their paths cross, fate writes an unexpected story, proving that the past has a way of resurfacing in the most surprising moments. This riveting tale emerges from Lovecraft's acquaintance with the young Alfred Galpin, crafted to impart upon him the perils of alcohol. Enclosed within one of Lovecraft's letters to Galpin, written in response to the young man's confession of surreptitiously consuming a bottle of whiskey and wine from the woods of his hometown of Appleton prior to the implementation of Prohibition in 1919.

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