"The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king,
but also a king who thinks he is a king."
-- Jacques Lacan
but also a king who thinks he is a king."
-- Jacques Lacan
The jukebox had been broken so long it had started collecting tips. A man ventures into the blistering emptiness of the Nevada desert to find his missing brother, rumored to have fallen in with organized crime. His only lead is a strange, tattoo-covered drifter he meets in a roadside bar, a man who laughs like a hyena and claims to have once worked for the syndicate that might've targeted his brother. Together, they hotel-hop through ghost towns and sun-bleached highways, following fragmentary clues and chasing whispers of an urban legend known only as the Jackal, an enigmatic "cleaner" said to appear in his victims’ lives before they vanish for good. When his companion’s past begins to unravel, the man must confront whether the monster he’s chasing is real... or already standing beside him.
