Trapped in gridlocked Los Angeles heat, an unemployed defense worker abandons his car and sets off on foot across the city toward his estranged family, his frustration curdling into rage at every indignity he meets, from overpriced convenience stores to gang turf. Armed and unraveling, he becomes a one-man wrecking ball as a weary cop closes in. Joel Schumacher directs a provocative, uneasy character study of a man snapping under the pressures of modern life, at once a darkly comic rampage and a disquieting portrait of alienation and collapse.