A subversive tale that interlaces five stories set in Los Angeles, where no taboo is left unexplored as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.

Can you trust anyone? A corrupt judge is about to rule against the expansion of an Indian casino in the Mohave and needs cover: he tells the tribe's chief that the FBI has an undercover agent on the judge's staff, so the expansion must be on hold. The chief hires a hit man to kill the law clerk. The clerk makes a run for it and manages through a series of botched thefts to end up with the bag of money meant for the hit man. A corrupt cop, a degenerate security guard, a hapless bus station clerk, a scheming waitress, and the hit man himself all want the bag - and the chief and the judge want the clerk dead. Is there any way he gets out of the desert alive?

David is an independent American photographer in pursuit of unspoiled natural locations for an upcoming magazine photo shoot. Katia is his unemployed Russian girlfriend, who would follow him anywhere because she is in love. Together, they discover the vast desert around Twentynine Palms, the city of palm trees. There, the passionate lovers surrender to the miracle of nature and make love between fights and compromises. However, they are utterly unaware that danger lurks even under the sun.