Frank (Jason Lee) and Eddie (Crispin Glover), two dim-witted petty crooks in a small-time Texas town, jump at the chance when local gangster Spider (Pruitt Taylor Vince) offers them fast cash for delivering stolen cigarettes to Mexico. But when the job goes bad, they find themselves deeply in debt to Spider. Their lives at stake, the pair devises an elaborate scheme involving a corpse and blackmail to raise the money and save their own skins.