Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality.

In 1940s Los Angeles two cops enter a world of greed, obsession and corruption as they probe the grisly murder of a Hollywood starlet. Based on the novel by James Ellroy.