When the owner of a venerable diner in the wrong part of town has an "accident" the men in her life scheme and fight for control of the establishment.

Alice's Diner has been around for 25 years but is down on its luck and Alice wants to retire. Assorted ex-cons, dreamers and schemers call the place home. When Alice plunges into a boiling deep fat fryer, the men in her life fight for control of the diner. Crosses and double crosses ensue until the central question is answered, "What happened to Alice?"—Michael Lent