Struggling to pay for his recent divorce, a British journalist hopelessly adrift in California is assigned by his editor to spend a month living on the Internet, hunting for the American Dream and reporting back in a daily column. Cut off from the outside world for thirty days, he journeys through the depths of cyberspace in search of meaning. Instead, he finds a weirdness and depravity that strangely mirrors his own wild ride from London to Los Angeles. In hot pursuit of an irresistible, if somewhat psychotic ex-girlfriend, he had travelled across the globe, conveniently ignoring the fact that she was engaged to someone else. As their relationship sours, he neglects a couple of things, like work permits and green cards. Suddenly, his dreams of movies, perfect bodies and endless sunshine are quickly replaced with the grim realities of being strip-searched at the County Jail. This is the LA they don't tell you about in guidebooks...