New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.

The very different Betsy and Jake are getting married. They want a small wedding, but their dads want to give them a huge one.

A hitman approaches a writer to help him create his next best seller, but the violent world he was a part of has other plans.