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Description: Acclaimed monologuist Spalding Gray recounts his latest neurotic exploits after he experiences blurriness in one eye. Diagnosed with a rare ocular disease, drooping eye -- and refusing, on quasi-religious grounds, to submit to conventional surgery -- Gray obsessively seeks out an array of alternative natural therapies, including: a Native American sweat ceremony; a raw vegetarian diet; and a visit to a Filipino doctor known as the Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons.