In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions involving sadistic doctors, rappers, and spiders. A woman who seems to jinx things by wanting to help is dumped by her boyfriend and finds herself penniless on the streets, and soon runs afoul of a local gang. Due to a telephone glitch, the man calls her at a phone booth trying to dial a "talk line" and invites her to his place. There they must help each other to overcome their respective problems.

Ted Raimi
as Hank Stone

Deborah Foreman
as Nancy

Bruce Campbell
as Ray

George Aguilar
as Comet

Brian McCree
as Presto

Eddy Roumaya
as Joker

Michelle Stacey
as Billboard Woman

John Hardy
as Mr. Jackson

Anna Aycox
as Mailwoman

Carol Vernon
as Mrs. Rabinowitz