The story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances for tenure at the university.

1. A Marvel – Carter Burwell
2. Knock Knock – Carter Burwell
3. Green Lawns – Carter Burwell
4. Good Riddance/The Canal – Carter Burwell
5. Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane
6. Blue Skies – Carter Burwell
7. Rabbi Sting 1 – Carter Burwell
8. Thirst – Carter Burwell
9. Uncertainty – Carter Burwell
10. The Roof – Carter Burwell
11. Comin' Back To Me – Jefferson Airplane
12. Rabbi Sting 2 – Carter Burwell
13. Thinking – Carter Burwell
14. The Mentaculus – Carter Burwell
15. Seriously – Carter Burwell
16. Canada – Carter Burwell
17. Today – Jefferson Airplane
18. Sanctum – Carter Burwell
19. A Serious Man – Carter Burwell
20. Dem Milner’s Trern - Sidor Belarsky