Trapped in a seedy post industrial town of Boraxville USA, and spurned by his yuppie girlfriend, inventor Sydney Ling tries to solicit the good graces of Jack Sandler, her ex-con father. Instead he is enlisted as fall-guy in Sandler's plot to steal a Hogarth and a Goya from the New French Art Museum.

Actor/Rapper Malik Work tells his own story of perseverance, love, music, and the struggle to survive as an artist in New York City.