They were four complete strangers from all different walks of life: an aging con artist with a debt to repay; a HIV-positive junkie looking to get her life back on track; a two-strike loser seeking honest work; and a morbidly obese single father with a debt of gratitude. Whatever their backgrounds, whatever their reasons, fate brought them together at the apartment of the one common bond they all shared: a charismatic, semi-notorious, small-time hood named Jerry. Fate works in strange ways What begins as a chance meeting among this quartet of peculiar protagonists quickly evolves into a quest of Grail-like proportions involving a cat-and-mouse game with both terrorists and the FBI, all while attempting to discover the meaning of the contents of a strange, tin box.