Director Doug Liman (Swingers) careens through the plot of three groups of L.A.-ers who are treading on dangerous ground. Ronna (Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter) is a grocery-store clerk who is about to be evicted from her apartment. Co-worker Simon (Desmond Askew) is an Englishman dying to have some fun in Vegas. Adam and Zack (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr) are soap-opera stars, who hope to set up Simon in a drug bust so they can get rid of their recently attained police records for possession.

Each of these stories is told separately but each is linked to a drug dealer named Todd (Timothy Olyphant). Simon asks Ronna to take over his shift. She does and then takes over his gig as drug-dealer go-between when Adam and Zack come in asking for 20 hits of Ecstasy. Meanwhile, Simon makes it to Vegas and then stirs up some trouble with a couple of thugs at a strip club. Simon escapes, but has left a credit card with Todd’s name on it.