Things aren't going well for playwright Rick McCabe. He is hammered down by his tyrant of a girlfriend. To add pain to injury, a mysterious theater critic, Albert Fish, rips McCabe apart in a scathing review of his latest production. The star of the show, washed-up Gorgeous Marty Makers, struggles with confidence. Following tragedy, a quizzical Detective Billy Catskill berates McCabe with questions no one seems to know the answers to. And then Gorgeous’ daughter Lulu, a practicing Satanist, shows up and teaches McCabe what it means to fend for one’s self.