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Filmmaker Alex Harty, 29, has always considered himself a "tortured artist"--but it's not until his wife dies in a car accident that he learns the term's true meaning. Still saddled with grief two years after her death, Alex's once-promising career has come to a standstill. After assaulting a movie producer with a Mont Blanc pen in Los Angeles, Alex returns to his hometown of San Francisco with little more than his beloved Mercury Comet, and a tape recording of his wife's last phone message. Once in the Bay Area, Alex re-acquaints himself with a wide array of characters, including a photographer who's stalking her ex-boyfriend, a fetish-hungry former classmate, a San Francisco socialite who fancies herself as a patron of the arts, a wedding band singer turned performance artist, a flashy city supervisor who aspires to be the next JFK, Jr., and the now grown-up French girl who spent her childhood summers as his neighbor. Several misadventures, including a comical car accident, a series of failed pranks and a minor earthquake, culminate in Alex reaching a clearer understanding of his grief, one that allows him to break through his "torture" and return to his art.

Film student, Alex and his roommate, art student, Lars, meet a young woman, named Blue, who's recently become a tenant in their building, with a niche profession; she's a hired assasin. Alex musters the courage to ask her to let him film a documentary on her most recent contract. After Blue agrees, she tells of a hit she has, coming up in Miami, to which she'll drive to and back from. As Alex' interviews continue, she talks of her troubled past; as a child , she lived with a foster father who sexually abused her, unitl she ran away. Alex becomes increasingly blinded by his documentary and subject; and risks everything and everyone, by convincing Blue to make a stop in New Orleans and find the man who had such a traumatic, destructive impact on her psyche and self; her former foster parent/rapist. Will the pair be able to drive back home to LA in one piece, or will they become Road Kill themselves...