An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu "Manco"
Kapak, is robbed as he places his cash receipts in a bank’s
night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his henchmen out to find a
suspect who is spending lots of cash and is too new to Los Angeles
to realize he’s stolen from a gangster. Their search leads to Joe
Carver, an innocent who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak
wish he’d chosen someone else. Meanwhile, the real culprit,
Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his girlfriend Carrie seem to believe
they’ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak.
Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the detective in charge of the puzzling
and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including
worries about how he’s going to afford to send the oldest child of
each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their
mothers suspicious. As this odd series of difficulties explodes
into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a gang
war over Kapak’s empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into
territory more strange and violent than either had imagined.