A prostitute aspiring to be an author, a secret satanic sect, and a scientist who has discovered a potion that reanimates the dead intersect in unexpected and comedic ways.

A bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of them needing heart medication, and leave them in an apartment, tied to a bomb. The police has to find the apartment before the bomb explodes. At the same time, in the same house, two old men are solving a jigsaw puzzle, and a female cellist practices the Bach cello suites.