The principle of a small, faltering firm. The brightest, the most successful, he carries the full weight of his father’s expectations. Living up to these expectations is a crushing burden, and as his business fails, Jack plunges into a daily routine of denial and depression. He confides in no one, hiding behind an obsessive interest in Hitler and a secret wish for a life of modest responsibility and diminished expectations. Caught in a viewing booth in Peep World, a pornographic video arcade, he’s forced to confront his dissembling nature, to undo the damage he’s done to his relationship with his wife and, ultimately, to face his father.