Plot summary

Guilt, denial, suspicion, and dread have crept into the sunny City of Dreams and the minimalist house of the affluent jazz tenor saxophonist, Fred Madison, and his soft-spoken wife, Renee, marking the gradual deterioration of their marriage. For the past three days, someone has been leaving mysterious unmarked videotapes at the front door of the reticent couple, triggering a series of bizarre hallucinations, dissociation, and murder with their increasingly disturbing content. Now, an amnesiac Fred finds himself on death row, while elsewhere in the city, the young, fresh-out-of-prison auto mechanic, Pete Dayton, dices with death, playing dangerous love games with the statuesque femme fatale and trophy girlfriend of the short-fused criminal overlord, Mr Eddy. And in the darkened lost highway of torn hopes and unfulfilled promises, seduction, betrayal, and death intersect. In the end, is Dick Laurent dead?—Nick Riganas