Another hot night in L.A. Another strip club. The stage is lit. A dancer emerges from the swirling smoke. Their eyes lock in a hypnotic embrace and Salvino Quipal's life begins to unravel. A safe comfortable life spent caring for his disabled mother and climbing the ladder of success at work suddenly fills with danger. His pursuit of the dancer stirs to life a painful memory and he is plunged into a surreal world of violent bikers, gypsies, racist motel clerks, and one peculiar vagrant toucan. But isn't that what he really always wanted?