Working at a remote national monument site on the Utah-Arizona border, anthropologist Sophia Shepard finds herself in the middle of shady dealings focused on monument land that may soon be opened to energy exploration.
A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
The control of the gangster-political Irish boss of an eastern city is slipping as he is challenged by an upstart Italian underboss. The situation is further complicated by the boss's trusted lieutenant--both of the men love the same woman.