Han myrdede Paraguays premierminister med en gaffel men det gav ham ingen glæde.Hans psykiater arbejder kun under dødstrusler og hans ærkerival vil starte en fagforening for rejemordere. For Martin Q. Blank er livet, som lejemorder, tomt og uden mening. Da Martin får en indbydelse til at deltage i jubilæet på den high school, han i sin tid gik på, vender han tilbage til sin barndomsby Grosse Pointe. Her møder han Debbie, den ungdomskæreste, han til et skolebal for 10 år siden, gav afkald på. Han møder også de gamle klassekammerater, som stadig tror på den amerikanske drøm. Samtidig dukker et sidste job op. Et job som han ikke er alene om.

The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.

Lawyer Savvas Tsiviklis receives a gift from an old girlfriend, Kiki Petachtidou, who has just returned from the Congo. The gift is two small wooden lions which, in order not to find his wife Koula and mad in the bedroom, gives them to a well-known young man. In a while, however, his wife comes and gives him the lions he had previously given to the young man. Savvas goes crazy and begins the quarrels and jealousy that bachelor Menios supposes by constantly exclaiming "What good do I do and not get married!" Of course, in the end, they clear everything, since Koula from the beginning She had said the lions were a gift from an old classmate, Ms. Contoyorgus, and those that Savvas gave to the young, though quite the same, were different.