Twenty-something Redmond (Kevin Corrigan) lives aimlessly in New York City, working fruitlessly on a poetry collection. When he runs out of money, his uncle Sam (James Woods) offers him cash in return for making a drop-off delivery at a subway station. The package turns out to contain cocaine, and the transaction goes wrong. Now on the run from hit man Jack (Burt Young), Redmond tries to take refuge with his friend Stretch (Michael Rapaport), an ambitious but shady beer distributor.