A struggling actress inherits a bevy of colorful villains after desperation (with a touch of femme fatale) drives her and her gullible boyfriend to steal big from the Los Angeles underworld.

After years of futile struggle on L.A.'s grueling audition circuit, would-be actress PRISCILLA ANDERS is bitterly contemplating a permanent return to her humdrum hometown-until one fateful morning in the diner where she waitresses. When Priscilla overhears seedy regulars discuss a bizarre riddle that hints at hidden loot, she recruits the lovelorn mechanic BENNY to help crack the code that could fund her Hollywood ambitions. But as the pair encounter a host of colorful-but-dangerous criminals it becomes clear the loot is hot, hefty, and blood-soaked.—Guy J. Jackson