It's eighteen years beyond the Summer of Love and a Santa Ana is blowing off the deserts of Southern California. On the hottest day in a century, a big cop is dragging Mental Health counselor Bud Kurvink into a hunt for a serial killer while he goes not so quietly insane. Bud plays out a reckoning with his past and the weirdness of California in this darkly comic road trip to the edge of madness.