Joe attends a party with his girlfriend Pearl, and is met by his friend, Annie], the singer and guitarist of Giant Drag, and her boyfriend Cadalack Ron.

Later, Joe visits Annie at her home, where she regales him with reptilian and apocalyptic conspiracy theories, which he rebukes, and invites her to record a new song she has written at his studio.

As they leave the pier, Joe is approached at his car by a strange man who calls his name, before pointing a gun at him and pulling the trigger.

[1] Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times praised the film, writing that it is "filled with wonderfully unruly and exciting music — including from [Annie] Hardy, who has perhaps the picture’s most moving moment, singing a song drawn from personal tragedy.

Mostly, Grodner and Cardamone capture how rock ’n’ roll is an unglamorous grind of creative fervor and commercial compromise, where the biggest plans are undone by the need to have flaky musicians execute them.