Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.

A cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.