Clyde Umney is a private detective who discovers that he is actually the character in a book written by Samuel Landry. Landry arrives and wants to swap places with him - and does! Umney suddenly finds himself living as a real person, not a storybook character, and must learn many things we take for granted. Umney begins to learn to write, as he intends to go and take his life back, and kill Landry in the process. No permission, so don't ask!