Every Monday evening Alan and Bob sit at Kelly's bar embellishing on their secret unhappy lives, while flirting with the stunning bartender, Cheryl. The diluted dreamers struggle to save face when a high profile attorney enters their sanctuary, armed with an eye for detail and a dose of reality.
The film is a compressed animation parody of Miklós Jancsó's stylised historical choreographies, in which those facing execution and the executioners trade places as the political compass changes direction cynically.
Whale is the story of Cameron, an Iranian American writer who returns home to his mother's house in Orange County, California after a failed relationship and lack of direction with life.
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Jean and Kelly are two young lovers who are living through difficult times in their relationship. The trouble begins when, against her wishes, an old friend of Kelly's named Lawson joins them in house-sitting for Jean's mother.