Eli, a hapless used car salesman and part-time poet, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, who informs him that she's eloping with her long-time secret lover, Big Suga', an unemployed would-be rap star who lives with his mother. Eli is devastated. . .and after failing pathetically at suicide he heads to the bar for a drink. This is where he meets May, the mysterious femme fatale who leads him on a bizarre two day journey from west Texas to Mexico, meandering through a web of love, money, betrayal, delusional misfits, dangerously incompetent drug dealers. . .and the occasional murder.