Rug Man

Frank
"Ace" Renzetti has been installing carpet for almost forty years, working the
upscale neighborhoods of Philadelphia's Main Line. At a time when he should be
considering retirement, Frank takes on one of the biggest--and strangest--jobs of
his career. The house is owned by a volatile and eccentric divorcee, the
renovation guided by her wabi-obsessed interior decorator. Its
as-yet un-air-conditioned rooms teem with weary contractors, many of whom have
been on the job for months; a pampered dog regularly sabotages everyone's work;
and the general contractor patrols the site as if it's the border.

Amid this
week-long circus, Frank's body starts to fail him, and when he loses both his
helpers to a drug bust, he is left to complete the job by himself on one good
leg. Desperate, he poaches a day-laborer from his competitor and finds that the young, paperless El Salvadoran has a way with carpet and
just might be the future of the trade--unlike Frank's own emotionally-estranged
son, Paul, a financial consultant whose professional life looks nothing like
his father's. As the physical challenges of the job mount, the fate of Frank's
business, and, with that, the fate of his blue-collar genius, become
increasingly uncertain.

Wry, insightful, and full of down-to-earth, bodily
truth and humor, Rug Man is a tribute to a bygone era of craftsmen whose
work was the source of their greatest suffering but also their greatest pride.