Chapters 10-11 Summary

On a May morning, Jeff finishes up his breakfast. He bought a small California farm near Montgomery Creek nine years previously and planted it with corn and asparagus. He has been living in solitude, three miles from the nearest neighbor, in harmony with the land since giving up Sharla and his life of sex and drugs. He is lonely but unwilling to build a relationship that he knows will eventually be erased.

Jeff goes into Redding for supplies. He is perusing the advertisements at the local store when he sees a movie poster, for a film called Starsea. It's the blockbuster hit of the season, but Jeff has never heard of it before. He goes to see the film, an incredible epic ahead of its time, involving intelligent dolphins and extraterrestrial beings that created humankind and now have abandoned it. Jeff...