In wartime Los Angeles, jobs are scarce for private eye Toby Peters. Into this grind of reality comes a hefty dose of surrealism in the person of Salvador Dali. Dali has seen his latest publicity stunt go fatally, frighteningly wrong. Drawn into a bizarre new world of mustaches without faces and watches melting on the Victory Drugstore grill, Toby has to hunt down precious paintings and priceless clocks, while wading through a growing thicket of bodies.