Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the United States and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to gather intelligence and report back to the Viet Cong.
Upon receiving a call from a stranger claiming to have found his ex-girlfriends cat Rocket, perpetually stoned beach bum Dewey Leigh ventures on a quest to reclaim it in the hopes of rekindling his broken relationship.
