Desperate to clear his debts after a string of disastrous weather investments, small-time grifter Bick Banion agrees to transport a mysterious case known only as “the Whatsit." Who's really working for who? Who's really getting the short end of the stick? Who's really behind all this cloak and dagger baloney? Bick Banion's out to save his bottom line, not ask questions.
Ines has just received an ultimatum: If she loses one more customer, she will be fired from her job at the call centre. On the other end of the line is Alwin. A fortune cookie writer who suffers from writer's block after the death of his best friend, his dog Bonnie Barko, and therefore wants to cancel his phone contract.