Harold Debec was having a lousy year. His wife had left him for a holistic healer, his son graduated college and headed for the pacific northwest to saw lumber and finally the unkindest cut of all, fired from the ad agency he had helped found. Against his better instincts, Harry moves to Hollywood to help promote the snake-bitten sequel to a talking dog movie. Enter a Hungarian junkie film director, a trio of would-be entrepreneurs who steal America's favorite pooch and a movie exec named Holly Cloth.