"Fresh out of prison for an arson conviction, hapless 20-year old Billy Bonney finds himself drifting through the seedy and unsavory world of cut-rate moviemaking, even more out of place amongst his peers than he felt six year earlier when he got busted. Following his brother to the sets of grade B and exploitation 1970s Hollywood looks like the path of least resistance, but when he accidentally lands a job as a handler to a has-been actor, it suddenly looks like the path of most resistance. The bright lights burn harsher and show more than he anticipated as he steps lucklessly into a gangster-driven plot to burn down a studio for the insurance money, and finds himself in over his head."--Page 4 of cover