Jack is really a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into serial killers' lifestyles has turned him into a paranoid wreck. When Jack is thrown off a lifeline by his broker and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a surprising and inexplicable interest in his script, everything should be his big breakout quickly turns out to his breakdown, as Jack has been forced to face his demons. Among them his love life, his laundry and also the origin of fear.