Jack Isidore is a 'crap artist', a collector of crackpot ideas and worthless obj
ects. His beliefs make him a man apparently unsuited for real life and so his si
ster, an edgy and aggressive woman, and his brother-in-law, a crass and foul-mou
thed businessman, feel compelled to rescue him from it. But, observed through Ja
ck's murderously innocent gaze, Fay and Charley Hume are seen to be just as obse
ssed as Jack.
Their obsessions may be a little more acceptable than Jack's bu
t they are uglier. And, in the end and thanks to Jack's intervention, theirs lea
d to tragedy ...