A thrill seeker agrees to help a shady professional gambler win a high stakes poker game. However, they lose and become captives of two eccentric rich men who decide to forcibly keep them on their remote gated ranch as indentured servants.

Whilst traveling across America living off the money from a large inheritance, ex-fireman Nashe has a chance meeting with Pozzi, a professional gambler and card shark. Nashe agrees to fund the penniless Pozzi in a game of poker against two eccentric millionaires, Flower and Stone, in an attempt to regain some of his spent fortune. His gamble has unforeseen and bizarre consequences for both himself and Pozzi. This film is an almost exact translation of the novel by Paul Auster.—Stewart Kristiansen <[email protected]>

A former fireman and drifter (Nashe) meets a professional poker player (Pozzi) that convinces him to back a high-stakes card game with two eccentric millionaires. When they lose Nashe and Pozzi wind up building a seemingly meaningless stone wall across a meadow on the millionaires' estate to work off their debts.—Erwin van Moll <[email protected]>