Bill is an unemployed writer who has lately taken to following strangers at random on the street. One day, Cobb, a man Bill has been following, catches him in the act. Cobb reveals he has a transgressive daily routine of his own: he is a burgler. He invites Bill to join him. Soon Bill is spending his time breaking into peoples homes with Cobb and having lunch on stolen credit cards. In Cobb, Bill finds a strange companionship -- part mentor, part confessor, and part evil twin. When Bill gets involved with a woman whose house the two have previously burgled, Bill becomes entwined in something much larger and more horrifying than petty crime.