At once humorous and dramatic, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at age thirty-eight, with a wife, a child and three dollars. How did he get that way? And who is Amanda? He cared about people; he was, Amanda notwithstanding, a good husband, father and son. At any other time the world would have smiled on him. But this was the nineties and the world valued other things.