When Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) innocently meets a downtown girl, he’s uncontrollably drawn into a vortex of wild, malevolent, and paranoid adventures after hours. Nothing in his humdrum life as a word processor had prepared him for his surreal encounters with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette), her far-out artist roommate Kiki (Linda Fiorentino), cocktail waitress Julie (Teri Garr), ice cream vendor Gail (Catherine O’Hara), and many more colorful characters that throw him into a series of awkward, surreal, and life-threatening situations. Now, Paul longs only for the safety of his Upper East Side apartment… but will he ever make it home?