Kirk Rush is a struggling English screenwriter who is obsessed by the action TV shows of the 1980s. Now he's finally been offered his dream job of writing The A-Team movie - provided he can set it in the Gulf War and make Face bisexual. But Kirk's attempts to knuckle down to his script are thwarted by the news that his younger sister Denise has taken herself off dialysis in Miami and is planning to commit assisted suicide with the help of the notorious Dr Death and his 'Sisters of Mercy'. It will take all of his powers of imagination, not to mention the assistance of KITTSCH (his Knight Rider car-cum-conscience) to help him on his heroic quest to save her.