P & R

<p>For Peter Peppard and Ronald Ragvald two screenwriters on the ragged edge of sanity life in the Hollywood Hills is a delicate balance of cynicism cheap whiskey and a friendship forged over two decades of shared contempt for the industry that pays their bills. Peppard is a hyperactive pulp novelist who never sleeps; Ragvald is a zen-mechanic and language genius who would rather be rebuilding a vintage motorcycle than fixing another terrible script. They are outsiders in a town built on artifice happily allergic to the trends phonies and vapid executives that surround them.</p><p>Their chaotic but stable existence is shattered when the studio decides Peppard's gritty L.A. noir masterpiece needs a small tweak: it's now set in Nebraska. As Peppard wages a one-man war against the soul-crushing machinery of Hollywood their home is invaded by an unexpected refugee from a new-age wellness cult forcing the two friends to become the one thing they've only ever written about: private investigators.</p><p>Thrust into a real-life conspiracy of missing gurus and sun-bleached secrets Peppard and Ragvald must navigate a two-front war-one against the soulless executives trying to ruin Peppard's story and another against a charismatic con man who has destroyed a life. In a city of beautiful lies can two cynical burnouts find a single ugly truth worth fighting for?</p>