Jesse Page, a former criminal, wants to turn over a new leaf, but has problems with his former cellmate Larry. Larry wants Jesse to help his friend with the drug trade. But when the deal failed, the thugs who tried to blackmail them were eventually killed, and Jesse and others were forced to flee. Jesse and Larry are hiding in a dilapidated motel in the California desert. Jesse decides to change his mind and go to Detroit to join his band. But as Larry followed, there were more complications, as well as eccentric motel owner Edsel and his crazy ex-stripper wife Hester, and drug dealers began to get closer to them all.