Jed Prouty

A traveling Tom show is stranded in Kansas when the manager flees with the loot and an actress marries a local undertaker to keep the troupe afloat.

Jimmy, a failed music shop owner, goes to work with his uncle. Before getting there, he befriends an Irish family, his uncle's worst enemy.

In New York City, ex-cop Max Thursday, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, exists in an alcoholic haze until his ex-wife appears with news of his son’s disappearance. So, Thursday stumbles through the city’s sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.