Isaac Lachmann is a dud. lsaac Lachmann is 40. lsaac Lachmann is a man in free falI immobiIized by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his overbearing famiIy doesn't heIp matters. What did he do to deserve this? Things were supposed to work out differently for him. lsaac Lachmann had big dreams. Now he just watches as his life unraveIs.