The film revolves around Charlie Rankin, who has been released from prison while facing a difficult path as he must be a fighter because he owes the man who protects him in prison. Charlie's life appears to be on a different path when he meets Florence at the time.
Assuming a series of increasingly empty noir postures and grimaces, Dorff expedites the plunge into frustrating pointlessness of this curious psychological drama.
There are intimations throughout that Charlie may not have the strongest grip on reality, though there's nothing ambiguous about the picture's overriding tedium.