the gravity of fate is nothing in comparison to the fleeting warmth of a loved ones last kissthus reads the final words of high school senior joshua feranna several years later lew his father currently working for a faceless loan shark has dipped into a drug and lustfilled method of cope separated but not divorced his wife autumn finally tracks lew down begging him to come home to help take care of their identityincrisis daughter zoey but when lews friend from high school sarah fox having lived the life of a drummer in the allbut extinct rock band the bastards returns to town stalked by a rumored resurrection tour lews world truly becomes a thing of legendand doubt what transpires from then on is a continuing snowball effect that will inevitably lead to the cataclysmic destruction of one family and others as the world continues to busy itself around them in seamless melancholy sleepeth not the bastard is a story about people each one steadily climbing towards a foreseeable yet undeniable end each person influencing the other in one massive string of events escalating and culminating at the end of their respective worlds whether those worlds be of mental emotional psychological or delusional originpart drama part dark comedy part rock n roll epic with a copious and perhaps endless helping of sex drugs and infamy sleepeth not the bastard is a romp for this generation an homage to those that came before and a warning for those that follow