It's the Fourth of July in Los Angeles, and Jamie, a broke illustrator who is behind on his rent, tries to throw a cookout while his overbearing roommate is out of town, but everything seems to go wrong.
After witnessing a woman's boyfriend commit murder outside his home, Jonathan, a man who lives so alone that he hasn't left his house in two years, is drawn out into the dangerous world to save her.
A retired Russian assassin attempts to relive happier memories through his favorite childhood cereal.
Tawny Kim heads to a halfway house for female ex-inmates transitioning into mainstream life. Once there, Tawny encounters her old cellies, Concha and Farhonda, and reveals her intentions to acquire monies owed to them.