Focuses on two defiantly innocent, rather addle-pated lovers, Jed and Chloe. Their affair suffers a seemingly insurmountable setback, which leaves Chloe without a reason to live. Determined to marry her, Jed sets out to discover the meaning of life. It seems an impossible task until he sees Max -- a junk collector who professes to hold the secret to existence -- on television. Despite the objections of his TV-obsessed parents, John and Mary (for whom the loss of cable is an almost inconsolable tragedy), Jed goes to the junkyard. Instead of discovering the meaning of life, however, he finds a crazed, near-suicidal man with serious problems. Undaunted, Jed camps out in the scrapyard, determined to solve his riddle before Chloe slips further into depression.