The tiny southern town of Westabooga, Ala., run by a crusty, old, narcoleptic Japanophile sheriff named Fuquay, is caught in a far-eastern warping of time and place. All the townspeople live happily in a weird combination of small town southern culture and traditional Far East customs, or at least their perceptions of them. This is the Deep South of 1979 and the latest stop for Dirk, a handsome didgeridoo-toting AmerAsian who is traveling the world looking for his long lost father.