On his hospital bed, a dying Uncle Tong gives final instructions to his dreadlocked nephews Andrew and Conrad: deliver a brown bag in exchange for a package. No questions asked. Cousins Andrew and Conrad Cunanan -- two film school geeks consumed by one overwhelming question: who is the greatest Filipino director? A debate rages between them as they dutifully bring the brown bag to the drop-off point - the Hotel Maricopa, a creepy, decrepit, abandoned hotel infested by strange underworld characters.