Only in America. Only in Hollywood. Only in Beverly Hills could a young man with a dream make his way to the stars. Carlos is a precocious 18 year-old who returns to America from Mexico with dreams of becoming a movie star.

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet c...