Living in Your Car

Steve Unger, a wealthy powerful CEO, falls from grace when he's brought down on charges of fraud, obstruction of justice and racketeering. When Steve cuts a deal to get out of prison, he realizes that his old life no longer exists - his wife and daughter don't want to live with him, his former colleagues shun him, and the whole world seems to despise him, even his parents refuse to help him and take him in. He visits his friend and lawyer Neil to retrieve his precious luxury sedan (to protect the car from creditors Neil has put it in his name). With nowhere else to turn, Steve meets Carol, a unique woman who has chosen to live in her car and who convinces Steve that his best bet while trying to get his life together is to do the same.

After spending his first night living in his car, Steve wakes up in an impound lot, his car having been towed while he slept in it. If he wants his car back he needs to raise $200 to cover the tow. To raise the money, Steve sneaks into his wife Lori's house and steals it from his daughter Kate's room. When Lori discovers what Steve has done, she is livid. To repay Kate, Steve takes a job as a day laborer, picking worms. But when he tries to negotiate a collective bargaining session on behalf of his worm picking colleagues, he gets them all fired. In retaliation, they attack Steve and damage his car.

Steve pays Karl, a possibly deranged local car dweller, to "fix his car". To raise the money to fix his car (and to pay Kate back the money he owes her) Steve agrees to do errands for Neil's mother. He sub-contracts all of his manual labour to Julio, one of his former, now un-employed worm picking colleagues, a decision that somehow leads Steve into a brief career as a porn star agent.