Tommy is an ageing career criminal released from Prison after a seven year stretch, to be reunited with his old heist buddy, Mick. Mick takes Tommy to his room in the crumbling splendour of the Golden Eagle Hotel in a downbeat area of Los Angeles. The Hotel's inhabitants are a bizarre mixture of elderly bums, prostitutes and pimps. Mick, however, has a plan for he and his pal to escape this mess, go straight and make a new life working in Las Vegas. Tommy is not so sure about the plan and seems intent on landing right back in prison again. When Tommy disasterously tangles with a prostitute, whose pimp is a savage thug, it seems as if the old boys exit strategy may be nothing more tha a pipe-dream.