Running the light

Debauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father – stand-up comedian is the only title this thoroughly ruined man has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career and the addictions that travel with it, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: what happens when the opportunity doesn’t come – or worse – it comes and goes?