Twenty-five-year-old Patrick’s beloved brother Tom dies and he finds himself unable to return to the hustle of his cubicle job at The New Yorker magazine. A long-time lover of art and art museums, he visits the Met and finds there a timeless stillness and beauty that is the antithesis of the thrusting, questing energy characteristic of New York City. Thus begins the story of the ten years he works at the Met as a guard, learning who he is without his brother in company with some of the greatest world art of all time and an international, multi-ethnic crew of guards from all walks of life. This is a workplace memoir taking us into the back of the shop, which is fascinating alone. But there is so much more.