One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a
friend and doesn't come home. As the boy's distraught parents navigate the
mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's
vanishing and other events on that same night reverberate through the lives of
seemingly disconnected strangers: a comic book illustrator in town for a weekend
of debauchery; a painfully shy and possibly disturbed young artist; a stripper
who imagines moments from her life as if they were movie scenes; a bubbly
teenage wiccan anarchist; a dangerous and scheming gutter punk; a band of misfit
runaways. These "urban nomads," each with a