Mike Thompson

Filmed Memorial Day weekend in 2019 at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas (the city where he first performed stand-up comedy) Doug Stanhope goes through a dark wealth of material, uniting topics as disparate as child fatalities, hotel chain misery, and all the things you can do in Indiana.

Set in a decaying, neon-lit future where automated systems and artificial intelligence have replaced almost all human labor, a weary cab driver navigates a retro-futuristic city, using casual conversation with his displaced passengers (a doctor, a mechanic, a teacher) as a fragile anchor to human dignity and connection.