Two stoned and disillusioned musicians [a singer (Johnny) and a guitarist (Dink)], head west on Route 66 toward Los Angeles with dreams of making it big in the music biz. A run in with a dishonest cop, the incredible desert heat and other events have their tempers getting the best of them. Like a mirage sweltering in a wave of heat the boys can’t believe their eyes. A gorgeous hitchhiker! Things seem to get better when they offer her a ride all the way to LA. Is lady luck finally smiling down on the boys? Coincidentally she’s westward bound.

Again on their way there’s more bad luck. The chick has a seizure and the boys freak out not knowing how to handle the situation. Frantically they search through her bag and manage to find her much needed pills. Once things appear normal and they get on their way again the chick tells them of a shortcut she knows which will take them through Vegas and save them a couple hours. The pink Cadillac bounces along the deserted rocky and bumpy road until their rundown caddy runs out of gas on the side of a desert road just outside of Las Vegas and a few miles from a truck stop. They decide to begin to walk together to get some gas and upon returning to their vehicle it’s gone and so are all their belongings and there hopes and dreams. Too proud to turn back home they’ll head west come hell or high water.

A wild-eyed stranger (looking like a slick desert cowboy) who could talk anyone into anything offers a lift into town. He immediately begins to make the musicians an offer they can't refuse. Cleopatra's Palace is having a high roller event later that same night. He needs a couple of musicians to get access into the event. At stake is a cool one million dollars in cash. Easy pickin’s. He guarantees that security will be lax and there will be no guns involved. (None of the guards in Cleopatra's ever tote guns.) All the boys have to do is get into the band that is gigging for the event, bring along the wild-eyed man and the money is theirs (with the wild-eyed man as their roady). The wild-eyed stranger already has the plans detailed out. He has an in with the local musician's union, some broad he used to screw. From her he gets the names and addresses of the singer and guitarist for the event. This motley crew of fools go to the musician’s pads and tie them up and take their tuxedos and musical equipment. One problem, the singer's tux fits well but the guitarist was a big fat guy. The tuxedo looks like a tent on the guitarist.

The plans are made and the boys manage to fake their way into the event. Since these guys are not very talented rock musicians they don't jive well with the well-trained musicians of the union.

With much fanfare and hoopla the money is brought into the event and placed on a table right in front of the band. Our co-horts cannot believe their eyes. The security is minimal as promised and right outside of the exit door is the loading dock and the getaway car will be there at the scheduled time. Easy enough right? Well all things well planned never go as scheduled.

The Highrollers either dancing or sitting and drinking wait to see who lady luck will smile upon tonight. The numbers and names are called out....

There is a tie for first, and Cleopatra's Palace decides to give away one million dollars each for the two winners. As the other million is brought into the event room with much fanfare the wild-eyed maniac pulls out his gun and orders the musicians to load up the cash in the musicians cases. They load up two million dollars and begin their ill-fated escape.

A well planned robbery and a truck blocking the path of the get-away car, which is confined to the loading dock space, foils the get-away. Police sirens can be heard screaming in the distance toward Cleopatra's. The wild-eyed man orders the driver to move the truck. The belligerent driver tells him where to go and that was the wrong response. He walks over to the driver who is still sitting in the truck seat and shoots him in the head. The driver slumps forward and the truck speeds into a wall just as security guards exit the hotel and crushes them to death on impact. The musicians are stunned and frightened. The gun toting and the wild-eyed maniac just killed a truck driver and three guards. That was not in the plans.

Police cars begin to close in on the scene. In the volley of gunfire with law enforcement and security the get-away driver is killed. Dink has to take the wheel as the wild-eyed maniac begins to methodically walk up to police cars and blow away the officers mercilessly. Johnny screams for Dink to take off. He does. Leaving the wild-eyed maniac behind and fending off law enforcement.

The musicians and the wild-eyed lunatic get separated in the confusion and turmoil. The two musicians make a clean get-away. And head back to the hideout. When they arrive at the hideout the hitchhiker gal is showering and he notices the Cadillac's car keys (attached to a raccoon’s tail) is sitting on the desk. Johnny’s suspicious. When an argument ensues over the keys, the hitchhiker manages to let the boys know that she had found the car and their equipment, which was impounded by a towing company. She tells him she spent her last dime getting his car out of the tow yard and all he can do is behave suspiciously toward her.

Worried more for the cops and less for the wild-eyed maniac who they presume to be dead, they decide to split, thinking they’re the only ones who survived the ordeal. Suddenly as they’re about to pull away, the wild-eyed maniac shows up. He's ballistic and thinking they’re running out on him. He pulls his gun and makes them drive further into the desert. After witnessing the way this killer went on a rampage at the casino they’re only hope is that he will let them go. But the boys are taken to a secluded place and made to dig their own graves.

Once tied up and thrown into the make shift grave the wild-eyed man reveals that the hitchhiker gal was in on this from the start. "The best laid plans of mice and men." It was a plan conceived long before they left their hometown. Such small-minded nothings... The wild-eyed man kisses the hitchhiker gal and then hands the gun over to her and starts to shovel the dirt onto the musicians. He is burying them alive! Suddenly, and from behind the wild-eyed man is shot in the back and falls face first into the grave.

The singer begins to thank the hitchhiker gal and hoots about all the money they will have to spend out in Los Angeles. He forgives her and asks her to be untied. She lets then know that she has no plans on sharing the money with anyone. Especially two worthless and outdated musician’s. She reloads the gun and points it into the grave. "So long suckers." Suddenly she begins to have a seizure. The gun falls from her hand into the grave. She contorts and convulses falling to the ground gasping for her pills. She drops dead.

The final scene: Our boys driving the old pink Cadillac into the city of Los Angeles.