"Fastidious and fussy shoe salesman by day and secretive aspiring film scriptwriter by night, Oswald Eichersen's dreams of success are as grandly inflated as his self esteem is hopelessly deficient. Just outside Eichersen's place of work, street person Terence Lomy has sat encamped for two years. One day, on an irrational impulse, having ignored the beggar for years, Eicherson gives Lomy a hundred-dollar bill, setting into motion a series of ironic and completely outrageous events that will change both of their lives forever." "Full of excruciatingly funny twists and turns of both fate and manipulative, perhaps even malicious, intent, this dark comedy of "trading places" resonates with a cascade of uncomfortable truths about how we see (or don't see) the people we live with every day."--Jacket.