From Los Angeles to San Francisco, from 1953 to now - Neeli Cherkovski uses bar scenes, café insights, family confessions, heartbreak and redemption, meditations on morality and the acceptance of self to transform memory, time and myth into an intimate poetic-memoir. He creates a window to the past and explores how time has shaped who he has become. It is here - the power of Cherkovski's talent surfaces. It is here - he finds himself, like an old friend in a warm embrace - Leaning Against Time.