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an exciting action-comedy screenplay
by Michael A. Weintraub and Glen Eric Reed

SOMEWHERE IN MIAMI, SOMETIME IN THE 1980s, three characters from different walks of life converge. As the story progresses, the characters plan outrageous deals, relive extraordinary tales, fall in love, and of course — try to kill each other.

Caroline Callahan is having a bad day. She's dangerously close to getting fired from her part-time waitressing job; her rent is late again; her ex-boyfriend is a police officer who remains "hot on her tail"; and she has a college final to study for. To top it all off, as she leaves her job to take the exam she's not prepared for, she gets into an auto accident with Juan Aquino.

Juan, like most aspiring smugglers, doesn't have car insurance. Also like most aspiring smugglers, he's in a rush, late for a meeting with a more established smuggler. Slipping a crisp $100 bill into Caroline's hand, he escapes to Franco's (a strip club on the Intracoastal Waterway) for his meeting with Harvey Johnson.

Harvey is the all-time premier smuggler in Miami (at least in his own mind), not to mention an avid sailor and raconteur extraordinaire. Having experienced just about everything, he has decided to partially retire and live on his boat, the Gloria. After bringing Juan into one of his favorite stories, Harvey offers to show him the tricks of the trade as they cook up a deal to smuggle some ostriches to the Bahamas. All seems to be going well ... except Caroline's coincidental appearances, Juan's cocksure attitude, and Harvey's loquacious storytelling style that has a tendency to suck his listeners into his stories.

Unable to find more honest work, and confronted with growing debt, Caroline ends up working at Franco's. Her ex-boyfriend the cop, Joey Manning, still won't take "get lost" for an answer. Lucky for him, he's been assigned to uncover Juan and Harvey's ostrich deal. Caroline decides to detach herself from Joey for good and turns to — who else? — Harvey. As she joins Juan and Harvey on their big ostrich mission, Joey catches up just in time to ruin everything.

An exciting chase scene down the highways of South Florida culminates in a violently euphoric and ironic shootout on the docks of Port Everglades. This will surely end up as another story for Harvey to pull his listeners into: Some characters live, some die, but none will ever be the same after their lives intersect, somewhere in Miami, sometime in the 1980s.