"[1] Neurotic failed film critic B. Rosenberger Rosenberg stumbles upon what may be the greatest artistic achievement in human history: a three-month-long film, complete with scheduled sleeping, eating, and bathroom breaks, that took its reclusive auteur, a psychotic African-American man named Ingo Cutbirth, 90 years to complete.

B. is obsessed with proving his politically correct bona fides, boasting of his relationship with a Black sitcom star and his constant use of an uncommon non-binary pronoun, "thon".

His attempts to mentally reconstruct the three-month movie send him to a wide variety of psychiatrists and hypnotists, most notably the sinister Barassini, whose work begins to have perverse effects on his body.

Several other plotlines concern the St. Augustine Monster; a war fought between android clones of Donald Trump and a fast food restaurant, Slammy's; a murder attempt by Abbott and Costello on a rival comedy team, Mudd and Molloy, which is depicted in Cutbirth's film; and several forms of time travel, including by a precognitive meteorologist, clones of other characters (including Trump and a more financially successful B.

"[7] Chief film critic of The Guardian Peter Bradshaw wrote, "[Kaufman] may be someone for whom anxiety and sadness are a personal ordeal, but he transforms them into bleak, stark, unearthly monuments to comic despair.