Director Wim Wenders bites the hand that feeds in this incisive commentary on the film industry at large. Finding himself & his crew financially adrift in Portugal, with no producer & no money to finish his film, director Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau) heads for Hollywood to find a backer. But as he does the rounds of the studios in search of finance, Munro soon discovers that art counts for little in the land where box office success rules supreme.