Lionel’s boring life as a salesman in a lacklustre electrical appliances store is instantly revived when vibrant, quirky Beatrice wanders into his store, looking for a new vacuum cleaner. When this malfunctions, she asks Lionel to come over to her house to fix it. Lionel is bewitched by Beatrice and, in order to see her again, he hatches the plan of breaking into her house to sabotage her household appliances.
In order to close the case files on over a dozen disappearances, a persistent detective, a bereaved senator, and a skeptical prison warden agree to the request of a convicted serial killer - Jim Gardener - granting him a live television interview in exchange for the locations of his remaining victims.
Itso, about 35, drives a special ambulance called a 'corpse-van'. His job is to pick up the bodies of the recently deceased and transport them to the morgue.
The story of the modern Los Angeles film industry as a series of monologues. The monologues are delivered by various characters, including a writer, a director, a producer, an actress, and a soccer mom.