Caught within the eddy of a drab retirement, Lewis Sullivan lives less than a mile from his childhood home. He spends his days anticipating visits from his grown daughter. Evenings are spent at his second favourite pub. But when an old friend reappears, Lewis finds this routine shaken ' leading him to question his life of comfortable habit, bereft of impulse, excitement, and freedom. A modern-day 'Death in Venice' by the author of the Booker-shortlisted 'The Lighthouse', 'He Wants' is charged and unpredictable.