All the Help You Need

The story follows Ryan as he builds, fixes, repairs, and paints everything for everyone from studio executives to transvestites. Ryan flows in and out of personalities including a number of colorful ladies, a Filipino stripper with “magnificent breasts” who turned out to be a man; a single mom Elise, who had a deranged lesbian lover; a series of hookers who always “tipped very well,” and an elderly Jewish man who asks Ryan to build him a sukkah (a ceremonial outdoor structure) to evoke the memories of the kind gentleman’s former life in Israel. He must have done a good job, because soon he’s inundated with requests to build sukkahs throughout the Fairfax district. All of this leads up to Valentine’s Day 2001 when he went to Tarzana to do some repairs for a middle-aged artist named Kitty. Once inside, he and Kitty were confronted by the woman’s ex-boyfriend and his three guns. The lethal events that occurred led to Ryan’s conscience-driven re-evaluation of his life, including his attitude toward the people who invite him to enter their homes and their lives.