Moving home after an eight year absence, Dennis believes he has finally found his dream girl, a hair stylist named Ornella. Sitting in her salon chair he works up the courage to ask her out on a date and she agrees. This angers her ex-boyfriend, Ralph, who decides to teach Dennis a lesson. Ralph and his friends follow Dennis home, attack him and leave him for dead. Soon after the beating, Dennis' twin brother Danny mysteriously arrives in town. Danny takes revenge for his brother's beating as two homicide detectives begin to investigate the crimes.

Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.