Two petty criminal cousins receive a temporary release from prison.The film follows their misfortunes over four days.

Various lives intersect in and around a West Hollywood motel.

College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.

Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as "the silent twins" because of their refusal to communicate with anyone but each other.