District attorney Ford Cole is running for mayor, promising to capture the city's elusive crime boss, Danny Ludin. On the night of a gas link in the inner city, his interview with a national reporter is interrupted by word that his best prosecutor, Nora Timmer, who's also his lover, has killed a man she claims was assaulting her. A few minutes later, a man shows up at Cole's office claiming it was murder, implicating Nora in complicated schemes and crimes. Cole wants a few hours to get to the bottom of a mess that quickly includes land deals, shell corporations, and political corruption. Who's setting up whom?

Russ was on cloud nine, living up senior year at college and enjoying his dream of having his own television show when it happened: GRADUATION! Broke, and suddenly with no job or plan, Russ finds himself living back home in his small town with his degenerate friends. The only solace Russ discovers is in chasing after Tara, his old high school crush. Russ, with no help from his friends, struggles to find his place in life. Russ is forced to make a decision, take a chance at a new life by leaving town, or to accept becoming a townie like so many of his friends.

The paths of several eccentric and troubled strangers cross one night.

Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.