 Two wounded people, they share intimacy of a sort, but only when Sandy Smith, a nubile young fan of "Under the Weather" shows up at Chub's doorstep and stays does he feel the urge to love and write again.However, she sought him out because another man told her he was "Charley Fuller" the writer of "Under the Weather".Sandy falls to her death from his window while Chub is gone, and while the police seem convinced it was suicide, Chub investigates his former student, now an escaped mental patient, then the man posing as Charley Fuller.