This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker.

A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

A struggling Middle-Eastern American actor, perpetually typecast as a terrorist, is forced to embrace his stereotype in order to save lives on and off the big screen.