Set against a European backdrop of hostels, trains and museums, A Budget Traveler's Guide to the Museums of Europe is the story of a couple's attempts to reconcile life with dreams. Fresh from graduate school, travel writer Will Newsome sends to his publisher increasingly irreverent museum guides while trying to explore the difficult relationships between him and partners, new and old, male and female. Each lover is transformed by the other's effort, and they realize they can do what they most want with their lives while traversing the continent.