Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

"Michelangelo Antonioni's first British film" A mod London photographer believes that he has photographed a murder.

"He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary." English professor John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.