Hot-tempered Echo Park slacker Rodolfo Cano (Jacobs) enlists in the army to escape a meaningless existence with his free-spirited girlfriend Diaz (Sara Diaz). When his call-for-service letter somehow winds up in the hands of a quietly dignified loner who lives on a sailboat, their lives intersect in odd and beautifully unexpected ways. - A slacker enlists in the army for kicks.