The personal disasters in Ruben's life have a catastrophic effect on the outside world, and his relationship with a black girl pushes him into conflict with his family and his sinister new employers.

It is a film about a man who is bored with life and in that boredom the devil makes play. He is in over his head and the choices he makes edge him closer to national notoriety and infamy. His circle of friends are a ragged collection of misfits, psychedelic astronauts, gangsters and an incompetent psychologist. The one true person he has, Nina, someone he imagined sharing his life with has come to fear him. Ruben is his name and he searches for meaning in hallucinogens and pornography, extreme politics and criminality. He looks just like the rest of us, you couldn't spot him in a crowd, in fact a crowd is the last place he would be.