Hank Delaney steals to survive, but his partner in crime, lapsed musician Ray Ramirez, gave up stealing. Until, that, is, the vintage muscle car belonging to Delaney's high school nemesis, John Segal, becomes vulnerable while Segal is laid up with injury. What they don't know is that the car is on lease to a company filming a steaming series in Brooklyn, in which Sylvie Virgule is the lead actress.
She, a self-described "femme fatale only to myself," she hires Paul Boustrophedon to act as her Spiritual Advisor on her New York shoot of the anticipated series Love & Theft, directed by indie darling, DA Chimister. When "Bou" moves out unexpectedly on his fiancée, he rents a room from an eccentric academic who tries to lead him into collaborating on a lawsuit over the alleged theft of intellectual property-Chimister's pilot script.
Meanwhile In Nova Scotia, five-year-old prodigy Walter Chamaran gains the attention of Buddhist monks, who seek to bring the boy to their monastery for observation. Walter's heroic act is the glue that binds the lives of the New Yorker entertainment set, and the fates of the upstate car thieves, lovelorn Ray and desperate Hank. Walter unites these two crews as the two maxipad-shaped patches of rubberized felt are joined to make a tennis ball.
