Nineteen-year old Jack Mc Greary is adrift of the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric & increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. When a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil & Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them & together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest, staging a series of elaborate & hilarious cons & heists. Young Jack is swept along into the world of hot jazz & cold, calculating crimes of the heart as the sexual tension between him & Miss Rose comes to the boil. Someone is being set up. But who is playing who?