A tormented young woman teams up with an eccentric house-painter and learns how to vent her childhood rage in a very unusual way... After losing her job and apartment, Tulip desperately looks for shelter and a means of supporting herself. Refusing to go back to her childhood home, because of bad memories, she lands in a one-room apartment with Kinard. He has lived through a childhood full of violence and cruelty and has found an unusual way to vent his left-over anger. Eventually, through trial and error, conflicting views of the world, and breaking a few laws, he shows her a path for moving on with her life.