Under pressure from his boss a desperate screenwriter tries to finish writing a script. However, a series of troubles and hardships is chasing him at home which also stand up against this.

In the wild West, Elmer McCurdy dies after a failed robbery, but death is only the start of his strange journey. His body is sold, displayed, and passed from one carnival to another, mistaken for a prop for decades. A darkly funny, haunting tale of a man who became more famous dead than alive.