Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the relationship between Carla, a hippie woman, and Rupert, a young punk rocker who feels like a pariah. Hoping to leave their current lives behind, the two conspire to kidnap Rupert's father and hold him for ransom.

A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.

The Devil sets his sights on Sam Silverstein, a sexually frustrated sixty-five-year-old Jewish husband in crisis, whom he selects as an easy mark. At first Silverstein resists, but as life moves from one disappointment to another, he agrees to sell his soul for a chance to make out with a pretty young thing.