Artie wants to make a movie. A slick producer tells him how to get funding; build a star-studded team. With each new difficult collaborator, Artie is forced to change his vision. When he finally meets with a big studio exec, he barely recognizes his script. After the bigwig turns him down, Artie snaps. In the end, all it took for production companies to make a movie about Artie was a life long prison sentence.