
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.

In New York, under the mistaken impression that she is talking to her normally staid boyfriend, a woman journalist agrees to meet an obscene caller at a bar, but then ends up witnessing a brutal bloody murder. With the perpetrator...