Beginning with childhood games and antics, David Byxby's retrospectives includes his thirty-year career as a pilot, family man and curmudgeon. His memories include sketches of the people with whom he shares adventures: a British archeologist, a Danish military pilot, a Swiss adventurer (whom he marries), a Romanian eccentric of dubious antecedents, and a German run-away lost and bewildered in the Western Pacific. "Byx" raises a daughter and maintains a long-distance relationship with his wife and son. Haunted by missteps and failures, he suffers through a compilation of regrets.