Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient ("the fat guy") and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city.

Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes, the ambience provided via boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and peanut butter, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out in New York.

A professional bowler is banned from competition after he bonks a fellow competitor in the head with a ball. The bowler goes on the hunt for his father, bowling legend Buzz Fizzelli, hoping to gain his help in being reinstated to the sport.