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“It's not the words they're paying for... it's the performance.”
Joan Vollmer was supposed to be a writer. Instead, she’s found herself playing house with a heroin addict in Mexico City. As she sets the table for the men who will go on to become the Beat Generation, the line between performance and reality starts to blur.
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Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

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