Dustin Yarma is a Los Angeles film executive whom awakens on a beach after a night of drunken debauchery to a dead body of a young woman he was with the night before. Minnow, a beach bum/derelict, approaches Dustin and offers to dispose of the body only if Dustin will finally support him. With little choice and knowing his life will be damaged in a public Hollywood scandal, Dustin accepts Minnow's offer. Soon, Minnow has moved into Dustin's posh house, and socialized with more of Dustin's friends, including his girlfriend Darcy.