Tired of being mistaken for others bearing the same name, Alan Berliner decides to rid himself of the “Same Name Syndrome” by inviting all the Alan Berliners in the world over to his house for dinner. What starts out as a search for identity, slowly transforms into a meditation on mortality. An intimate and humorous personal essay, it explores the treasures and dangers hidden in one’s own name and makes one think twice about the who, the why and the where contained in every name.