"Everything is hotter down south." A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

"It was 1973, and the climate was changing." 1973, suburban Connecticut: middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drink, etc., find their lives out of control.

"Give us your brain for two hours and you will never be the same again.....(Icelandic)" An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychadelic escapades.