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Synopsis

The film presents scenes of the lives of a group of seemingly deranged, sociopathic elderly individuals living in Nashville, Tennessee, "who do antisocial things in a non-narrative way."

The movie opens with multiple shots of the old gang members masturbating to trash. This continues as a recurring sequence throughout the film. These gang members are mostly male. There is only one woman among the main cast, though you can see others in brief shots later in the film.

We get a glimpse into the home of the elderly thugs. The living room is squalid, and the old people lie around or dance through it and rant and rave about various meaningless topics. The kitchen, however, is clean.

Various members of the gang are shown trespassing, partaking in vandalism, and disturbing the peace among other crimes.

A few of the members are seen on a basketball court in broad daylight, mocking and laughing at a boy failing to make baskets.

As the old people relax and lie down, the old lady sits in a wheelchair and cheers him on as the child describes hitting a doll with a hammer, before aggressively doing so. The movie displays a recurring theme of violence driven by peer pressure, and the ritualistic antics in which the gang collectively partakes.

Briefly, a scene is played out involving the old lady on a small tricycle, dragging the beaten doll behind her by a string attached to the back of the bike. This is seen in greater detail towards the end of the film.

An old man drags himself along the ground as the old lady, again, sits in her wheelchair. She instructs a fat kid on how to hide a razor blade in an apple and screeches with joy at the thought of their pain. The gang members display a strong, recurring theme of taking sadistic pleasure in the suffering of others. We later learn that other people have hurt the gang through societal standards and expectations and actively attempt to oppress their freedom of self.

Later in the film, we see them ranting and making pancakes in the kitchen, chanting "make it, make it, don't fake it". The scene changes to the dark living room, which also features a dining table. Two old men sit across from each other, both wearing hats that are connected by a large pipe. They do not take these hats off and remain connected throughout the scenes in which they are featured. The old lady serves them pancakes, screams at them for a short time period, and then instructs an old shouting man to liberally apply dish soap to the pancakes. The hat men are henceforth forced to begrudgingly eat the pancakes. They do not appear to mind.

The movie is peppered with more scenes of the gang humping trash.

An old man, clad in only a Confederate flag t-shirt, humps a tree.

The gang sits out on the porch and talks of freedom and the demons in the night. An old man jerks off in the corner.

The gang hires three fat prostitutes. In a line, they bend over on the bed in their underwear while the old people walk back and forth and tap the prostitutes' butts as they pass. Occasionally, one drums on their butt before moving on. The prostitutes lie on the bed and cheer while one of the men sings and tap dances in the corner. Another man masturbates to this. That man is then shown sitting in the tap dancing corner in his wheelchair, while the prostitutes sit around him, sing "Silent Night", and rub his crotch.

The gang go out for a walk. They sing songs, particularly "Three Little Devils", and are shown standing still under a bridge, doing nothing, as the water flows by. At night, a man in a French maid costume reads a poem he wrote for the group, which ends in an expression of his hearty enthusiasm for fornicating with trash.

This man appears to die in the next scene. The men wearing hats sit around him, apparently mourning.

Another old man lies in his bed with a trumpet, monologuing incoherently and playing his trumpet between sections. Afterward, he sits in a chair and plays a twangy rendition of an apparently original song, which he entitles "You Girls Sure Suck Large Fat Penis".

As the film continues, the rants of the gang members grow more bitter. They express their hatred, their pain, their fear, their lack of belief in magic. A man lies on the bed, talks about drugs, and blows a trumpet.

Toward the end, the gang goes for a bike ride. The woman is continuously singing "Three Little Devils". They all drag dolls behind them, tied to the back of the bicycles.

Integrated with this are scenes of a night time car ride; the old people split into two car pools. A man in one car talks of society, the power it holds over people, and how the way they live is in a state of true freedom from its clutches.

The film ends with the woman sneaking into a house, kidnapping an infant inside, and carrying it away in a stroller, singing a lullaby to it as the film cuts off.