A middle-aged man named Leon looks back on his troubled childhood through the prism of his old bicycle. What starts out as a nostalgic trip down memory lane turns out to be a fantastical tale full of wacky inventors, reminiscences and a writer whose best friend is a red cat.

Failing novelist Herman Henkelman tries to regain his audience with socially engaged writing, but grapples with the question of what he really has to say.