In a world where men suffer from unprecedented loneliness, Gerry is an extreme rarity: a man who works on his friendships. What if you took total responsibility for your own social life? What if, instead of treating social life as something you inhabit, you treated it like something you made? The use-value of a social life is not to advance your career down various paths of connection. The only solution to the crisis of loneliness is a similarly conscious effort in social life, what Gerry does.