Sebastian Poe, a washed-up piano player, spends his days and nights performing low-paying gigs for seedy Jazz Clubs and dive bars. Sebastian is also in debt to a corrupt police detective Terry, whom he owes eight thousand dollars.

 

When Terry asks for his debt to be paid, and Sebastian can’t, Terry tasks him with killing someone and gives him the rest of the night to do it.

 

Over the course of one night, Sebastian’s plight plunges him into the dark streets of Deep Ellum, where he comes across an odd assortment of characters while battling with his conscience and his desire to just play the piano!