It's about growing up in DC, it's about two brothers, it's about bartending, it's about a bar on Tenley Circle in the post-Watergate era, it's about a love affair with a bottle of rum. The story is based on actual events. Some details have been fictionalized for the sake of storytelling. Mr. Martin bartended for fifteen years in his hometown of Washington, D.C., before moving to Albuquerque, N.M. in 1989.