When a liquor store owner finds a case of viper in his cellar, he decides to sell it to the local hobos at one dollar a bottle, unaware of its true properties. The drinks cause its consumers to melt, very messily. Two homeless lads find themselves up against the effects of the toxic brew, as well as going head to head with Bronson, a Vietnam Vet with sociopathic tendencies, and the owner of the junkyard they live in.